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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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Main Authors: Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934- (Author), Hayes, Hannah L. (Author), Pilkey, Keith C., 1965- (Author), Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson (Author), Neal, William J. (Author), Longo, Norma J., 1943- (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Seashore ecology.
Sea level > Environmental aspects.
Sand and gravel mines and mining > Environmental aspects.
Mines and mineral resources > Environmental aspects.
Coasts > Environmental aspects.
Beaches > Environmental aspects.
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Who's Mining the Shore?
  • 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.

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