Retreat from a Rising Sea : : Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change / / Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Orrin H. Pilkey, Keith C. Pilkey.
Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and wi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 32 color illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Control + Alt + Retreat
- 2. The Overflowing Ocean
- 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans
- 4 New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands
- 5. Cities on the Brink
- 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House
- 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline
- 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise
- 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees
- 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay
- 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future
- Bibliography
- Index