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- catalog abstract ""This volume discusses the role of humans in transforming the coastal landscape. The book details the many ways beaches and dunes are eliminated, altered and replaced and the differences between natural landforms and the human artifacts that replace them. A distinguishing feature of the book is the emphasis on the importance of retaining naturally functioning beaches and dunes in ways that achieve natural values while accommodating development and use."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11993823.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This volume discusses the role of humans in transforming the coastal landscape. The book details the many ways beaches and dunes are eliminated, altered and replaced and the differences between natural landforms and the human artifacts that replace them. A distinguishing feature of the book is the emphasis on the importance of retaining naturally functioning beaches and dunes in ways that achieve natural values while accommodating development and use."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-332) and index.".
- catalog description "The developed coastal landscape : temporal and spatial characteristics -- Altering landforms to suit human needs -- Replenishing landforms -- Effects of structures on landforms and sediment availability -- Characteristics of human-altered coastal landforms -- Temporal scales of landscape change -- Management programs -- Maintaining and enhancing natural features in developed landscapes -- Directions for geomorphological research.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 338 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521470137 (hardback)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "333.91/7 21".
- catalog subject "Coastal ecology.".
- catalog subject "Coastal zone management.".
- catalog subject "Coasts.".
- catalog subject "HT391 .N58 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "The developed coastal landscape : temporal and spatial characteristics -- Altering landforms to suit human needs -- Replenishing landforms -- Effects of structures on landforms and sediment availability -- Characteristics of human-altered coastal landforms -- Temporal scales of landscape change -- Management programs -- Maintaining and enhancing natural features in developed landscapes -- Directions for geomorphological research.".
- catalog title "Beaches and dunes of developed coasts / Karl F. Nordstrom.".
- catalog type "text".