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Against the seas : saving civilizations from rising waters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soderstrom, Mary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flood control.
- Sea level.
- Climate change mitigation.
- Flood control--History.
- Sea level--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Flood damage prevention.
- Flood forecasting.
- Sea level--Environmental aspects.
- Sea level--Forecasting.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Against the Seas tells how we have coped with rising sea levels since the end of the Ice Age -- by moving, building defences, or magic. Flood stories in different cultures show just how traumatic those experiences were. But what happened in the past may help us in the future and gives hope that we will survive.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Rising Waters
- Musical Interlude
- 1 The Sinking City
- 2 Those Mythic Floods
- Part 2: Taking Back the Land, Living with Water
- 3 Fighting Back
- 4 Wresting a Home from the Sea
- Part 3: Rivers, Deltas, and Estuaries : The Battle Between Water and Land - Three Examples
- 5 Shanghai
- 6 Dhaka and the Sundarbans
- 7 The Salish Sea, Vancouver, and Seattle
- Part 4: Where We Go from Here
- 8 What Can Be Done - What Will Be Done?
- Part 5: No Time to Waste
- 9 The Rainbow
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Image Credits
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781459750500
- 1459750500
- OCLC:
- 1492960405
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