| Description |
224 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index. |
| Contents |
Tombstones by the sea : our climate change commitment -- Our best defense : shelling the naval base, Virginia -- The proximity of far away : climate change comes to the alligator, North Carolina -- Fish out of water : high tide in the Lowcountry, South Carolina -- Ebb-tide optimism : ghosts of the Golden Isles, Georgia -- The octopus in the basement : surreal matters in the Sunshine State, Florida -- Springing back : resiliency on the Gulf Coast, Louisiana and Texas -- Take on the waters : on the birthplace of rivers, West Virginia -- More ghosts on the coasts, and the last place to go. |
| Summary |
"The results of climate change make the headlines almost daily. All across America and the globe, communities have to adapt to rising sea levels, intensified storms, and warmer temperatures. One way or another, climate change will be a proving ground. We will either sink, in cases where the land is subsiding, or swim, finding ways to address these challenges. While temperatures and seas are rising slowly, we have some immediate choices to make. If we act quicly and boldly, there is a small window of opportunity to prevent the worst. We can prepare for the changes by understanding what is happening and taking specific measures. There is 'commitment' already in the climate change system. To minimize those effects will require another kind of commitment, the kind Rick Van Noy illustrates in these stories about a climate-distressed South. Like Rachel Carson's groundbreaking work Silent Spring, Van Noy's Sudden Spring is a call to action to mitigate the current trends in our environmental degradation. By highlighting stories of people and places adapting to the impacts of a warmer climate, he shows us what communities in the South are doing to become more climate resilient and to survive a slow deluge of environmental challenges."-- Publisher description. |
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Southern States -- Climate.
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Climatic changes -- Southern States.
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Coast changes -- Southern States.
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Coast changes -- Gulf Coast (U.S.)
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Saltwater encroachment -- Southern States.
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Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
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Climatology. (OCoLC)fst00864281
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Coast changes. (OCoLC)fst00865699
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Saltwater encroachment. (OCoLC)fst01104346
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Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
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United States -- Gulf Coast.
(OCoLC)fst01240870
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| ISBN |
9780820354361 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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0820354368 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9780820354378 (electronic book) |
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