Against the Tide The Battle for America's Beaches

Name: Against the Tide The Battle for America's Beaches
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ISBN: 9780231084192

ISBN-10: 0231084196

ISBN-13: 9780231084192

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Authors: Cornelia Dean, Juan J. Morrone

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Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns -- we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide, this pattern is leading to the rapid destruction of our coast. But her eloquent account also offers sound advice for salvaging the stretches of pristine American shore that remain. The story begins with the tale of the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900 -- the deadliest natural disaster in American history, which killed some six thousand people. Misguided residents constructed a wall to prevent another…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/14/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.87" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Cornelia Dean is a science writer and former science editor at the New York Times and teaches seminars on the communication of science at Harvard University.



Preface


Acknowledgments



September, Remember



The Great Beach



Armor



Unkind Cuts



Unnatural Appetite



Cause and Effect



The Big One



Clues



Constitutency of Ignorance



For Sale


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index