Troubled Waters : understanding the science behind our coastal crisis /: understanding the science behind our coastal crisis. ([2021])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen J. Culver, editor.
• Authors: Culver, Stephen J
• Contents: Chapter 1. A Cautionary Scientific Tale and an Introduction to this Book.- Chapter 2. Buried Secrets of the North CarolinaCoast, USA.- Chapter 3. Time and Tide Wait for No Man.- Chapter 4. Barrier Island Breakdown: the Ephemeral Outer Banks of North Carolina.- Chapter 5. A Different Kind of Sea-Level Story from Malaysia.- Chapter 6. What Lies Beneath? Revealing Coastal Processes through Mapping.- Chapter 7. The Anthropocene, Wait, What? A Basque's Coastal Experience Helps to Figure it Out.- Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Hydrogeology Problems in Coastal North Carolina.- Chapter 9. Drilling the North Carolina Coastal Plain – Discovering What Lies Beneath.- Chapter 10. Earthquake-Driven Coastal Change: Ghost Forests, Graveyards and 'Komodo Dragons'.- Chapter 11. A Scientist's Personal 70-Year Discourse with Past, Present and Future Coastal Change.- Chapter 12. Climate, Sea Level, and People – Changing South Florida's Mangrove Coast.- Chapter 13. Pictures from Space and Feet in the Mud: Understanding the Value of the World's Changing Mangrove Forests.- Chapter 14. What is Happening to the World's Coral Reefs?.- Chapter 15. The Water, the Coast, the Future.- Chapter 16. Afterword: The Power of the Ocean.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.45/7; 551.52; Physical geography; Coast changes; Coast changes; Physical geography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030523831; 3030523837
• Related ISBNs: 3030523829; 9783030523824
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2020).
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