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04066aam a2200565 i 4500 001 C6D731766FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231021010103 008 220407s2022 ncuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022003195 020 $a 1478018798 020 $a 9781478018797 020 $a 1478016167 020 $a 9781478016168 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d PAU $d IUO $d BBH $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QH545.S37 $b P557 2022 082 00 $a 577.69/9 $2 23/eng/20220625 084 $a NAT011000 $a NAT011000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Pilkey, Orrin H., $d 1934- $e author. 245 10 $a Vanishing sands : $b losing beaches to mining / $c Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, and Hannah L. Hayes. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xiii, 248 pages : $b illustrations (some color), color maps ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Who's Mining the Shore? -- Sand: Earth's Most Remarkable Mineral Resource -- Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia's Sandpile -- The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders -- Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow -- Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean -- A Summoner's Thirteen Tales: South America's Coastal Sand Mining -- A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive -- Africa Sands: Desert Abundance-Coastal Dearth -- Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions. 520 $a "In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving beaches, dunes, and associated environments, plus lives and tourism economies everywhere"-- $c Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Sand and gravel mines and mining $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Coasts $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Sea level $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Beaches $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Seashore ecology. 650 0 $a Mines and mineral resources $x Environmental aspects. 650 7 $a NATURE $x Coastal Regions & Shorelines. $x Coastal Regions & Shorelines. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a NATURE $x Environmental Conservation & Protection. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Beaches $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00829112 650 7 $a Coasts $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00865805 650 7 $a Mines and mineral resources $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01022565 650 7 $a Sand and gravel mines and mining $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01104837 650 7 $a Sea level $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01110056 650 7 $a Seashore ecology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01110404 700 1 $a Longo, Norma J., $d 1943- $e author. 700 1 $a Neal, William J., $e author. 700 1 $a Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson, $e author. 700 1 $a Pilkey, Keith C., $d 1965- $e author. 700 1 $a Hayes, Hannah L., $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934- $t Vanishing sands. $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 $z 9781478023432 $w (DLC) 2022003196 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021032029.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C6D731766FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search