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Retreat from a Rising Sea
Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
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344 g
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223x144x18 mm
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Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, at Duke University. His books include A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands and Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future.Linda Pilkey-Jarvis is a geologist at the Washington State Department of Ecology, where she helps manage the state's oil-spills program. She is the coauthor, with Orrin H. Pilkey, of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future.Keith C. Pilkey is an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration. He has an undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University and a juris doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law. He is coauthor, with Orrin H. Pilkey, of Global Climate Change: A Primer.
Foreword, by the Santa Aguila FoundationPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Control + Alt + Retreat2. The Overflowing Ocean3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans4. New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands5. Cities on the Brink6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees10. Deny, Debate, and Delay11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the FutureBibliographyIndex
This big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we need to take now to remove vulnerable populations. The authors detail effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for changing U.S. federal coastal-management policies.