Pilkey / Longo / Neal Vanishing Sands

Losing Beaches to Mining
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2343-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Travelling from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States, the authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating environmental, social, and economic impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pilkey, Orrin H.

Longo, Norma J.

Neal, William J.

Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson G.

Pilkey, Keith C.

Hayes, Hannah L.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Deltas, Flussmündungen, Küstenregionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
1. Who’s Mining the Shore? 1
2. Sand: Earth’s Most Remarkable Mineral Resource 21
3. Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia’s Sandpile 43
4. The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders 56
5. Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow 77
6. Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean 97
7. A Summoner’s Thirteen Tales: South America’s Coastal Sand Mining 118
8. A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive 143
9. Africa Sands: Desert Abundance—Coastal Dearth 167
10. Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions 185
Appendix A. Sand Mining Violent Events 195
Appendix B. Sand Rights: Bringing Back Reason 197
References 201
Contributors 233
Index 235

Über Autor(innen)

Orrin H. Pilkey is Emeritus James B. Duke Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University and the author and coauthor of many books.

Norma J. Longo, a geologist and photographer, is coauthor with Pilkey of several books on coastal issues.

William J. Neal, Emeritus Professor of Geology at Grand Valley State University, is an expert on ocean and Great Lakes shoreline evolution and coauthor of many books with Pilkey.

Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago is Professor in the Geology, Geophysics, and Marine-Research Group at the Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia, and a prolific author of coastal science studies.

Keith C. Pilkey, an attorney concerned with legal issues of coastal development, is coauthor of two books about sea level rise.

Hannah L. Hayes is a scholar of changing land rights, disaster capitalism, and risk management in Barbuda and Fiji.