<p>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.</p>

The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline (Living with the Shore)

Business & Money

Wallace Kaufman

Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr.

Economics

Duke University Press Books

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.

Living with the New Jersey Shore (Living with the Shore)

William J. Neal

Karl F. Nordstrom

Paul S. Gares

Norbert P. Psuty

Orrin H. Pilkey Sr.

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