Böcker av William J. Neal

Investigates the status of a specific state's coastal region. This book brings a wealth of information on migrating shorelines, selection of building sites, and pertinent regulations, and also reflects an expanded concept of the coast to include a broad range of coastal hazards.

A call to live with the coast, as opposed to living at the coast; unless Florida coastal communities conserve beaches and mitigate storm impacts, the future of the beach-based economy is in question

Part of the "Living with the Shore" series, this book provides a guide to one of America's most popular shorelines. It features diagrams and photographs that illustrate coastal processes and aid in understanding the impact of hurricanes and northeasters, wave and current dynamics, as well as the environmental destruction due to over-development.

Part of the "Living with the Shore" series, this is a user's guide for inhabitants of Alaska. Providing individual property owners in various regions of the state, with the fundamentals of hazard recognition and mitigation strategy, it discusses the geological history of Alaska and its relation to the area's cultural history.

A guide to coastal physical processes, risk assessment of potential property damage from coastal natural hazards, and property damage mitigation. It represents a coastal geology/oceanographic perspective that is decidedly in favour of preserving the natural protective capabilities of the native coastal environment.

Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments-from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World's Beaches tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours. It discusses tides, waves, and wind; the patterns of dunes, washover fans, and wrack lines; and the shape of berms, bars, shell lags, cusps, ripples, and blisters. What is the world's longest beach? Why do some beaches sing when you walk on them? Why do some have dark rings on their surface and tiny holes scattered far and wide? This fascinating, comprehensive guide also considers the future of beaches, and explains how extensively people have affected them-from coastal engineering to pollution, oil spills, and rising sea levels.