Vanishing Sands

Vanishing Sands

Losing Beaches to Mining

Neal, William J.; Hayes, Hannah L.; Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson G.; Longo, Norma J.; Pilkey, Orrin H.; Pilkey, Keith C.

Duke University Press

01/2023

272

Mole

Inglês

9781478018797

15 a 20 dias

567

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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
1. Who's Mining the Shore? 1
2. Sand: Earth's Most Remarkable Mineral Resource 21
3. Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia's Sandpile 43
4. The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders 56
5. Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow 77
6. Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean 97
7. A Summoner's Thirteen Tales: South America's Coastal Sand Mining 118
8. A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive 143
9. Africa Sands: Desert Abundance-Coastal Dearth 167
10. Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions 185
Appendix A. Sand Mining Violent Events 195
Appendix B. Sand Rights: Bringing Back Reason 197
References 201
Contributors 233
Index 235
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