Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining

by Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal, Keith C. Pilkey, et al.

Book Overview

In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018798
• ISBN13: 9781478018797
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"