Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores

by Keith C Pilkey and Orrin H. Pilkey

Book Overview

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees. In Sea Level...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006374
• ISBN13: 9781478006374
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"