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Vanishing Sands

Autor Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J Longo, William J Neal, Nelson G Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C Pilkey, Hannah L Hayes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 ian 2023
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478018797
ISBN-10: 1478018798
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 56 illustrations, including 53 in color
Dimensiuni: 178 x 253 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

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