The last beach / Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]Description: xviii, 237 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780822357988 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822358091 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 363.700914/6 23
- GB451.2 .P55 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232) and index.
The end is nigh! -- Selling the family silver : beach-sand mining -- Indefensible : hard structures on soft sand -- Patch-up jobs : beach replenishment -- The plastisphere : trash on the beach -- Tar balls and magic pipes -- Stuck in a rut : driving on the beach -- The enemy within : beach pollution -- The international dimension of beach destruction -- The end is here.