Rosanna Xia

California Against the Sea

Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

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Produktbeschreibung

"An exploration of the responses that sea level rise demands along the West Coast"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Heyday Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 147mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781597146197
• ISBN-10: 1597146196
• Artikelnr.: 67040845

Autorenporträt

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. Her breadth of work includes the highly anticipated feature documentary film, Out of Plain Sight, which she directed and produced, and her celebrated book, California Against the Sea, which received the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and a gold medal from the California Book Awards, among other honors. She was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting, and her journalism has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

Inhaltsangabe

Coast Under Siege 
1. California against the Sea
2. Our Vanishing Coastline
3. A Town on the Edge
Saving the Golden Shore 
4. The People’s Law
5. Protect at What Cost?
6. Choosing Casualties
Missing Pieces
7. The People’s Coast
8. Overlooked and Forgotten
9. Rebirth Between the Tides
10. Relearning the Ways of the Shore
May We Open Our Eyes to Water 
11. Grappling with Retreat
12. The Little Town That Would
13. Bridges to the Future
Acknowledgments
Notes and Further Reading
Index
About the Author