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The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In <i>The Battle for North Carolina's Coast</i>, four experts on coastal dynamics examine issues that threaten this national treasure.<br/><br/>According to the authors, the North Carolina barrier islands are not permanent. Rather, they are highly mobile piles of sand that are impacted by sea-level rise and major storms and hurricanes. Our present development and management policies for these changing islands are in direct conflict with their natural dynamics. Revealing the urgency of the environmental and economic problems facing coastal North Carolina, this essential book offers a hopeful vision for the coast's future if we are willing to adapt to the barriers' ongoing and natural processes. This will require a radical change in our thinking about development and new approaches to the way we visit and use the coast. Ultimately, we cannot afford to lose these unique and valuable islands of opportunit

Author

Stanley R. Riggs; Dorothea von der Porten Ames; Stephen J. Culver; David J. Mallinson

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781469661674

Subjects

Nature, History, Science