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Deltas and humans : a long relationship now threatened by global change / Thomas S. Bianchi.
LIBRA GB591 .B53 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bianchi, Thomas S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deltas.
- Coast changes.
- Sea level--Environmental aspects.
- Sea level.
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Early human civilizations and river deltas
- The ever-changing delta
- The holocene and global climate change
- Changes in the hinterland
- Effects of sea-level rise on deltas
- Saving the deltas
- Exploring a sustainable future
- Epilogue : a brave new world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199764174
- 0199764174
- OCLC:
- 950083735
- Publisher Number:
- 99969467904
- 40026527194
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