The Beaches Are Moving by Wallace Kaufman
Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.James B. Pilkey is Orrin H. Pilkey. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, and Founder and Director Emeritus of Western Carolina University's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines. Pilkey has written and edited a number of publications, including The Rising Sea (co-authored with Rob Young) and Useless Arithmetic (co-authored with Linda Pilkey-Jarvis), a critique of mathematical models used to anticipate environmental change. He is the author or co-author of numerous volumes in Duke University Press's Living with the Shore series, which he co-edited. Pilkey has received multiple awards, including the Francis Shepard Medal for excellence in Marine Geology, the Priestley Award for significant contributions to environmental research, the North Carolina Coastal Federation's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Federal Disaster Management Agency's Distinguished Public Service Award.
Keith C. Pilkey resides in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Pilkey is a lawyer who has long been interested in geoengineering and corporate sway over science policy. Mary Edna Fraser is an artist who uses enormous silk batiks to highlight environmental concerns. Her batiks are generally based on maps, satellite pictures, and photographs she obtains while flying her family's 1946 propeller plane. Fraser has shown extensively, including at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and has been called a pilot with a palette by Michael Kilian of the Chicago Tribune.
The Washington Post's Hank Burchard described the batiks as visual poetry in his review of the show. Orrin H. Fraser & Fraser A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands is co-authored by Pilkey. She currently resides in the city of Charleston, South Carolina.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822305743 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822305747 |
| Title | The Beaches Are Moving |
| Author | Wallace Kaufman |
| Series | Living With The Shore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 1984-01-13 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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