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Against the Tide:

The Battle for the American Coast
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Columbia University Press, 1999 - 279 páginas

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 tragedy, but the barrier ruined the beach and ultimately destroyed the town's booming resort business.

From harrowing accounts of natural disasters to lucid ecological explanations of natural coastal processes, from reports of human interference and construction on the shore to clear-eyed elucidation of public policy and conservation interests, this book illustrates in rich detail the conflicting interests, short-term responses, and long-range imperatives that have been the hallmarks of America's love affair with her coast.

Intriguing observations about America's beaches, past and present, include discussions of Hurricane Andrew's assault on the Gulf Coast, the 1962 northeaster that ravaged one thousand miles of the Atlantic shore, the beleaguered beaches of New Jersey and North Carolina's rapidly vanishing Outer Banks, and the sand-starved coast of southern California. Dean provides dozens of examples of human attempts to tame the ocean -- as well as a wealth of lucid descriptions of the ocean's counterattack. Readers will appreciate "Against the Tide's" painless course in coastal processes and new perspective on the beach.

  

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Review: Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches

Comentário do usuário  - Fred - Goodreads

This is interesting. It does not make you want to support wealthy landowners who have second homes on the beach. Welfare in the form of government funded US Army Corps of Engineers efforts to save ... Ler resenha completa

Review: Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches

Comentário do usuário  - A. Bowdoin Van Riper - Goodreads

Beachfront property is some of the most desirable real estate in the world, and some of the least stable. It's the nature of ocean beaches and barrier islands to move, and the nature of people who ... Ler resenha completa

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CHAPTER
1
CHAPTER
15
CHAPTER FOUR
69
Unnatural Appetite
92
CHAPTER
120
CHAPTER SEVEN
134
CHAPTER EIGHT
155
For Sale
210
Epilogue
235
Notes
241
Bibliography
251
Index
267
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Sobre o autor (1999)

Cornelia Dean is science editor of the New York Times, where she writes frequently on coastal issues. She is also heard regularly on WQEW and WQXR's "Health Times."

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