Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Carolina Beach Inlet Navigation Project
Author: The Battle for North Carolina's Coast
Author: Stanley R. RiggsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807878073
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle for North Carolina's Coast, four experts on coastal dynamics examine issues that threaten this national treasure. According to the authors, the North Carolina barrier islands are not permanent. Rather, they are highly mobile piles of sand that are impacted by sea-level rise and major storms and hurricanes. Our present development and management policies for these changing islands are in direct conflict with their natural dynamics. Revealing the urgency of the environmental and economic problems facing coastal North Carolina, this essential book offers a hopeful vision for the coast's future if we are willing to adapt to the barriers' ongoing and natural processes. This will require a radical change in our thinking about development and new approaches to the way we visit and use the coast. Ultimately, we cannot afford to lose these unique and valuable islands of opportunity. This book is an urgent call to protect our coastal resources and preserve our coastal economy.
The Land Was Ours
Author: Andrew W. KahrlPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469628732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American–owned beaches in the twentieth century. By reconstructing African American life along the coast, Kahrl demonstrates just how important these properties were for African American communities and leisure, as well as for economic empowerment, especially during the era of the Jim Crow South. However, in the wake of the civil rights movement and amid the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt, many African Americans fell victim to effective campaigns to dispossess black landowners of their properties and beaches. Kahrl makes a signal contribution to our understanding of African American landowners and real-estate developers, as well as the development of coastal capitalism along the southern seaboard, tying the creation of overdeveloped, unsustainable coastlines to the unmaking of black communities and cultures along the shore. The result is a skillful appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the Sunbelt.
Planning for North Carolina's Coastal Inlets
Author: William S. TilleyPublisher:
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Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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Madd Inlet
Author: Tim SwinkPublisher: Touchpoint Press
ISBN: 9781952816970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1969, during the crux of the Vietnam war, Jack Tagger is on the run. As the war in Southeast Asia rages on, he has made the moral decision to resist the draft. In his effort to avoid the authorities and the war, he seeks refuge on a desolate coastal barrier island where unbeknownst to him, while avoiding one war, he finds himself unwittingly caught in the middle of another deadly land-war between two very powerful men at Sunset Beach, North Carolina. When a native American shaman summons the spirit of an innocent victim of that conflict, Jack is again forced to make a potentially lethal choice between good and evil and he learns that, like Madd Inlet, what runs smooth and meandering on top does not always belie what runs just beneath the surface. Madd Inlet is perfect for fans of Nicholas Sparks' Every Breath and Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing.
Carolina Beach and Vicinity Area South Prject, Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Wave Protection, New Hanover County
Author: Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2007
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, on Civil Works Activities
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
Book Description