Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores - Softcover

Pilkey, Orrin H.

 
9781478006374: Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1478006374 ISBN 13: 9781478006374
Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees. In Sea Level Rise Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat. Among many topics, they examine sea level rise's effects on coastal ecosystems, health, and native Alaskan coastal communities. They also provide guidelines for those living on the coasts or planning on moving to or away from them, as well as the steps local governments should take to prepare for this unstoppable, impending catastrophe.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University and the author and coauthor of numerous books, including The Last Beach, also published by Duke University Press.

Keith C. Pilkey is an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration. He is coauthor, with Orrin H. Pilkey, of Global Climate Change: A Primer, also published by Duke University Press.

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Verlag
DUKE UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1478006374
ISBN 13 
9781478006374
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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