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The last beach / Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-2024.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beaches--Environmental aspects.
- Beaches.
- Seashore ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and the grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores.</div>
- Contents:
- The end is nigh!
- Selling the family silver : beach-sand mining
- Indefensible : hard structures on soft sand
- Patch-up jobs : beach replenishment
- The plastisphere : trash on the beach
- Tar balls and magic pipes
- Stuck in a rut : driving on the beach
- The enemy within : beach pollution
- The international dimension of beach destruction
- The end is here.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822358091
- 0822358093
- 9780822375944
- 082237594X
- OCLC:
- 1153546791
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