Research Catalog

Title

America's most vulnerable coastal communities / edited by Joseph T. Kelley, Orrin H. Pilkey, J. Andrew G. Cooper.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kelley, Joseph T.
• Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-
• Cooper, J. A. G.

Description

vi, 179 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

"Sea level is rising, and yet Americans continue to develop beaches with little regard. In this volume, a group of coastal geologists discusses the startling saga of ten U.S. East and Gulf Coast shoreline communities (plus Puerto Rico and some western Europe strands) and the problems created by their inevitable interaction with natural processes in this highly dynamic geologic environment. The authors discuss the geologic context of the hazards of each site as the history of societal responses and their environmental impacts. Response to the natural coastal processes that threaten lives and buildings is carried out in a context of local, state and national politics with fixed short-term engineering solutions (beach replenishment, seawalls) generally favored over longer-term approaches (moving back, prohibition of seawalls). This essential GSA Special Paper foreshadows the impending rise of sea level and the myriad of shoreline responses and political controversies it will provoke."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Special paper ; 460

Uniform Title

Special papers (Geological Society of America) 460.

Subject

• Shore protection > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) > Case studies
• Shore protection > Gulf Coast (U.S.) > Case studies
• Beach erosion > United States > Case studies
• Coast changes > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Camp Ellis, Maine : a small beach community with a big problem...it's jetty / Joseph T. Kelley and Laura L. Brothers -- Balancing natural processes and competing uses on a transgressive barrier, Duxbury Beach, Massachusetts / Peter S. Rosen, Duncan M. FitzGerald, and Ilya V. Buynevich -- Case study on the effects of coastal engineering structures and beach restoration methods after storms, Westhampton Beach, Long Island, New York / Nicholas K. Coch -- Eye of a human hurricane : Pea Island, Oregon Inlet, and Bodie Island, northern Outer Banks, North Carolina / Stanley R. Riggs ... [et al.] -- North Topsoil Beach, North Carolina : a model for maximizing coastal hazard vulnerability / Orrin H. Pilkey and William J. Neal -- Folly Beach, South Carolina : an endangered barrier island / Norman Levine ... [et al.] -- History of poor economic and environmental renourishment decisions in Broward County, Florida / Harold R. Wanless -- Continued development of the west end of Dauphin Island, Alabama-- a policy review / George F. Crozier -- Hurricane Rita and the destruction of Holly Beach, Louisiana : why the chenier plain is vulnerable to storms / Asbury H. Sallenger ... [et al.] -- Natural versus anthropogenic mechanisms of erosion along the upper Texas coast / Davin J. Wallace, John B. Anderson, and Antonio B. Rodriguez -- Summary of Puerto Rico's vulnerability to coastal hazards : risk, mitigation, and management with examples / David M. Bush, William J. Neal, and Chester W. Jackson -- Bad beach management : European perspectives / J. A. G. Cooper, G. Anfuso, and L. Del Rio.

ISBN

• 9780813724607 (pbk.)
• 0813724600 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009042996

OCLC

• 463454111
• SCSB-12631758

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library