Kim Steinhardt, Gary Griggs

The Edge (eBook, ePUB)

The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California's Coast

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populated, urbanized, and industrialized -- but also home to wilderness with complex, fragile ecosystems -- the coast is the place where humanity and nature coexist in a precarious balance that is never perfectly stable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Linden Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610353199
• Artikelnr.: 49815678

Autorenporträt

Kim Steinhardt delivers popular lectures and photographic programs exploring the universe of sea otters and coastal conservation for aquariums and marine centers, universities, state parks, and other audiences. He has been recognized for his award-winning marine wildlife photography and is currently working with National Geographic Books on publication of a collection of his sea otter images and coastal storytelling. He has also served as an advisor regarding sea otters for the NatGeo Kids Explore My World series and, for the last five years, has written a newsletter column about marine wildlife and the ocean. As a longtime conservationist drawing on his former service as a California state administrative law judge, litigator and public interest advocate, he helps translate ocean conservation concerns to the public to build support for citizen action and legislative policy making.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Dedication
Introduction
1. Coastal Kid
2. A Coastal Life -- Coastal Kid II
3. A Migrating Edge
4. Moss Landing
5. Monterey Bay
6. Lost Neighborhoods of the California Coast -- Sliding Off the Edge
7. Fishing on the Edge
8. The Sea Otter Survival Story -- Superstars in Trouble Again
9. Beaches and Sand -- A Soft Edge
10. The Fight to Preserve 1.4 Miles of San Francisco Bay Shoreline
11. Searching for the Coast
12. Big Sur and the People's Highway -- The Road on the Edge
13. Oil on the Edge
14. Protecting the Coast -- The California Coastal Commission and Other
Experiments
15. The Coastal Records Project and the People's Coast
Final Word