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Living on the shores of Hawaiʻi : natural hazards, the environment, and our communities / Charles Fletcher ... [and others].
LIBRA HT393.H3 L58 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coastal zone management--Hawaii.
- Coastal zone management.
- Land use--Environmental aspects--Hawaii.
- Land use.
- Natural disasters--Environmental aspects--Hawaii.
- Natural disasters.
- Natural disasters--Environmental aspects.
- Land use--Environmental aspects.
- Hawaii.
- Physical Description:
- x, 371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- History of the land
- Volcanism among the islands
- Earthquakes and tsunamis
- Hurricanes
- Climate and water resources
- Stream flooding and mass wasting
- Sewage treatment and polluted runoff
- Climate change and sea-level rise
- Beach erosion and loss
- Reefs and overfishing
- A responsibility to nurture the land.
- Notes:
- "A latitude 20 book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824834333
- 082483433X
- OCLC:
- 643568805
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