Books in the Living with the Shore series

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.

This volume in the Living with the Shore series provides practical and specific information on the status of the nation's coast and useful guidelines that enable residents, visitors, and investors to live with and enjoy the shore without costly and futile struggles against the forces of nature.

Maine is known for its rockbound coast and pristine shoreline. Yet there is more to this shore than rocky cliffs. This book describes the origin of the more common "soft coast" of eroding bluffs, sand beaches, and salt marshes. A central theme is the formation of the present shoreline during the current ongoing rise in sea level and the ways in which coastal residents can best cope with the changes to come. Although it is not widely known, Maine is experiencing a rapid, uneven drowning of its shore at the same time that coastal development is at an all-time high. The authors explain how the shoreline is changing and provide a series of highly detailed maps that show the relative safety of particular locations on the coast.Specific guidelines for recognizing various safe and unsafe coastal settings are presented, as are recommendations for sound construction techniques in hazardous coastal areas. Photographs and drawings illustrate the danger of living too near the shoreline, and an up-to-date review of Maine's regulations governing coastal construction is simply and readably described. A bibliography of important coastal literature is also included, as well as a guide to federal, state, and local sources of information.

This volume in the Living with the Shore series provides practical and specific information on the status of the nation''s coast and useful guidelines that enable residents, visitors, and investors to live with and enjoy the shore without costly and futile struggles against the forces of nature.

Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you—all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America''s beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.

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.

Serves as a source of information about the coast of the Pacific Northwest, its geological setting, the natural responses of beaches and cliffs to ocean processes, and the problem of erosion. This title examines the lessons taught by ages of geological and cultural history.

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.

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

A new look at the West Florida and Alabama Gulf shoreline, in the context of burgeoning development and revised coastal regulations.