Coasts in Crisis: A Global Challenge

by Gary B Griggs and Gary B. Griggs

Book Overview

Coastal regions around the world have become increasingly crowded, intensively developed, and severely exploited. Hundreds of millions of people living in these low-lying areas are subject to short-term coastal hazards such as cyclones, hurricanes, and destruction due to El Ni o, and are also exposed to the long-term threat of global sea-level rise. These massive concentrations of people expose often-fragile coastal environments to the runoff and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293622
• ISBN13: 9780520293625
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"