Orrin H. Pilkey is the James B. Duke Professor of Geology emeritus and director emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Duke University”s Nicholas School of the Environment. He has written numerous books, including
A Celebration of the World”s Barrier Islands, and is the editor of the twenty-four-volume series,
Living with the Shore.Linda Pilkey-Jarvis is a geologist in the State of Washington”s Department of Ecology, where she helps manage the state”s oil spills program.
9 Ebooks by Orrin H. Pilkey
Orrin H. Pilkey & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis: Useless Arithmetic
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environment …
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€32.99
Orrin H. Pilkey & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis: Retreat from a Rising Sea
Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to highe …
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€19.99
William J. Neal & James Andrew Graham Cooper: The World’s Beaches
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet’s most dynamic environments—from …
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€38.99
Orrin H. Pilkey & Tracy Monegan Rice: How to Read a North Carolina Beach
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the …
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€13.99
Charles O. Pilkey & Orrin H. Pilkey: Lessons from the Sand
Ever wonder where sand comes from? Or why shells are colored differently? Or how to estimate the size of a wave? Featuring more than forty fun hands-on activities for families with children,
Lessons …
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€16.99
J. Andrew G. Cooper & Orrin H. Pilkey: Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization
At the coast all is not what it seems. Decades of beachfront development have seen a variety of efforts to stabilize the shoreline to protect ill-placed beachfront property, both from shoreline …
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€106.99
Pilkey Orrin H. Pilkey & Young Rob Young: Rising Sea
On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a …
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€37.89
Charles O. Pilkey & Orrin H. Pilkey: Lessons from the Sand
Ever wonder where sand comes from? Or why shells are colored differently? Or how to estimate the size of a wave? Featuring more than forty fun hands-on activities for families with children, Lessons …
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€18.94
William J. Neal & Orrin H. Pilkey: How to Read a North Carolina Beach
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the …
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€16.22
