Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

by Mark Monmonier

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence--chiefly economic, residential, and environmental--as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that Mark...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226534030
• ISBN13: 9780226534039
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"