"The authors describe four climate change impacts--changing chemistry [in the ocean], warming waters, strengthening storms, and rising seas--using the metaphor of the ocean as body to draw parallels between natural systems and human systems"--Back cover.
The author guides readers through some of the places where climatic factors are affecting coastal regions in the United States and presents firsthand accounts from those facing displacement such as a Native American community on the Isle de Jean Charles, and a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago.
hazardous interactions within the coastal environment
Kusky, Timothy M
2008
Offers students an overview of the natural hazards that are threatening the planet's coasts, exploring historic disasters, geologic processes, and natural events that have impacted coastal areas in various regions around the world.
Examines how rising sea levels effect the geographical shape of the world, how human populations contribute to this rise, and how scientific research is coping with those changes.
Explores the different forces that act to change Earth's coastlines, including the effect of humans in the process and what can be done to lessen our impact.
Photographs, maps, and drawings help describe how long-term forces, such as crustal plate movement, and short-term processes, including weather, waves, and tides, can affect the character of a coast.
Describes the various factors that change the shape of coastlines including storms, natural erosion, and rising sea levels. Also discusses the future implications of these changes on coastal and low-lying centers of population and what can be done to protect the coastlines and slow the process of change.
