Losing ground identity and land loss in coastal Louisiana
What is it like to lose your front porch to the ocean? To watch saltwater destroy your favorite fishing holes? To see playgrounds and churches subside and succumb to brackish and rising water? The residents of coastal Louisiana know. For them hurricanes are but exclamation points in an incessant los...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797949506719 |
| Sumario: | What is it like to lose your front porch to the ocean? To watch saltwater destroy your favorite fishing holes? To see playgrounds and churches subside and succumb to brackish and rising water? The residents of coastal Louisiana know. For them hurricanes are but exclamation points in an incessant loss of coastal land now estimated to occur at a rate of at least twenty-four square miles per year. In Losing Ground , coastal Louisianans communicate the significance of place and environment. During interviews taken just before the 2005 hurricanes, they send out a plea to alleviate the damage. They |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621034971 9781282579385 9786612579387 9781604734898 |
