Orrin H. Pilkey

The Last Beach

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Orrin H. Pilkey, deemed America’s foremost philosopher of the beaches, by the New York Times, is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Pilkey is a coauthor (with Keith C. Pilkey) of Global Climate Change: A Primer, published by Duke University Press, and of twenty books in the Press's Living with the Shore series, edited by Pilkey and William J. Neal. In 2013, The Orrin Pilkey Marine Science and Conservation Genetics Center opened at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina. Pilkey lives in Hillsborough, N.C.J. Andrew G. Cooper is Professor of Coastal Studies in the Sc… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Cooper, J. Andrew G.

ISBN: 978-0-8223-5809-1
EAN: 9780822358091
Produktnummer: 16124473
Verlag: Duke University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H17.6 cm x B24.5 cm x D1.5 cm 552 g
Abbildungen: 70 illustrations
Gewicht: 552
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Orrin H. Pilkey, deemed America's foremost philosopher of the beaches, by the New York Times, is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Pilkey is a coauthor (with Keith C. Pilkey) of Global Climate Change: A Primer, published by Duke University Press, and of twenty books in the Press's Living with the Shore series, edited by Pilkey and William J. Neal. In 2013, The Orrin Pilkey Marine Science and Conservation Genetics Center opened at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina. Pilkey lives in Hillsborough, N.C. J. Andrew G. Cooper is Professor of Coastal Studies in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Ulster. He and Pilkey are coauthors (with William J. Neal and Joseph T. Kelley) of The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline and coeditors of Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization. Well known for his advocacy of nonintervention on shorelines and his work on beaches and coasts worldwide, Cooper lives in the town of Coleraine in Northern Ireland.