Vanishing Sands : Losing Beaches to Mining /

"In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and...

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Главные авторы: Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934- (Автор), Hayes, Hannah L. (Автор), Pilkey, Keith C., 1965- (Автор), Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson (Автор), Neal, William J. (Автор), Longo, Norma J., 1943- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс eКнига
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
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  • Sand: Earth's Most Remarkable Mineral Resource
  • Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia's Sandpile
  • The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders
  • Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow
  • Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean
  • A Summoner's Thirteen Tales: South America's Coastal Sand Mining
  • A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive
  • Africa Sands: Desert Abundance-Coastal Dearth
  • Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions.