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    Vanishing sands : losing beaches to mining (2022)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478016168 , 9781478018797
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 248 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934 - Vanishing sands
    DDC: 577.69/9
    RVK:
    ZK 5700
    RVK:
    RB 10693
    RVK:
    RB 10295
    Keywords: Sand and gravel mines and mining Environmental aspects ; Coasts Environmental aspects ; Sea level Environmental aspects ; Beaches Environmental aspects ; Seashore ecology ; Mines and mineral resources Environmental aspects ; Ökosystem ; Umweltschaden ; Verhalten ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Bergbau ; Raubbau ; Küstengebiet ; Küste ; NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines ; NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Erde
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: "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 dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving beaches, dunes, and associated environments, plus lives and tourism economies everywhere"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Vanishing Sands : Losing Beaches to Mining (2023)
    [s.l.] : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478092964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (265 p.)
    Keywords: Nature ; Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines ; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
    Abstract: 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 dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere
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    Vanishing Sands : Losing Beaches to Mining (2023)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478016168 , 9781478018797
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Conservation of the environment ; The Earth: natural history general
    Abstract: 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 dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of 〈i〉Vanishing Sands〈/i〉 track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere
    Note: English
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    Escaping nature : how to survive global climate change (2024)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478025443 , 9781478020660
    Language: English
    Pages: 300 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934- Escaping nature
    Keywords: Climatic changes ; Climate change mitigation ; Climatic changes Effect of human beings on ; Global temperature changes ; Global warming ; NATURE / Ecology ; SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)
    Abstract: "Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, reduced nutritional levels in crops, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, allergens, dust, and other particulate matter will impair our physical and mental health and even reduce our cognitive abilities. Climate change disproportionately affects the world's poor. It also harms Nature, and could ultimately trigger a sixth mass extinction. In Escaping Nature, Orrin H. Pilkey and his coauthors offer concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change. They argue that, while we wait for the world's governments to get serious about mitigating climate change, we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations, behavioral changes, nature-based solutions, political changes, and education"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Earth -- The Lessons of Geologic Time -- The 2021 United Nations Climate Report -- Famine -- Permafrost -- Air -- Hurricanes -- Tornadoes -- Heat -- Bad Air -- Fire -- Wildfires -- Urban Firestorms -- Water -- Sea Level Rise -- Ocean Acidification -- Marine Heat Waves -- Tsunamis -- Floods -- Drought -- Water Supply -- Space-- Climate Refugees -- Climate Havens -- Green Cities -- Health -- Nature on the Move -- The Biosphere -- The Heart of the Matter -- New Ideas -- New Developments -- Bug-Out Bags.
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