Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

by Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey, Orrin H. Pilkey

Book Overview

Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to critical infrastructure, such as water-treatment and energy facilities, creating vast, irreversible pollution by decimating landfills...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231168446
• ISBN13: 9780231168441
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher