Superstorm Sandy : : The Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore / / Diane C. Bates.
Sandy was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history after Katrina, but the waters had barely receded from the Jersey coast when massive efforts began to “Restore the Shore.” Why do people build in areas open to repeated natural disasters? And why do they return to these areas in the wake of major deva...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, Society, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 17 photographs, 6 maps, 15 tab |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Down the Shore, (Not) Everything’s All Right
- 1. The Inevitable Sandy
- 2. The Shore of Memories
- 3. Shore Resorts
- 4. The Suburban Shore
- 5. Government, Bureaucracy, and Technical Fixes
- 6. Restoring Security at the Shore
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR