Living With Long Island S South Shore

Author : Larry McCormick
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822305019

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Living with Long Island's South Shore by Larry McCormick Pdf

The south shore of Long Island, one of New York's greatest recreational assets, is receding at the rate of up to six feet per year. In many cases, efforts to halt this erosion actually have increased it. Buildings cone thought safely constructed back from high tidemarks today protrude far into the water. Even more, the number of homes an facilities built too close to the sea's edge has dramatically increased, making the south shore probably less ready to withstand a major storm than at the time of the cataclysmic hurricane of 1938. Thus, the question of what to do now to overcome and avoid these hazards takes on real urgency. Pointing to past mistakes, many Long Islanders insist that only by acting in an informed reasonable way can safe and environmentally sound development be possible for everyone.

Author : Orrin H. Pilkey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822322242

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The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands by Orrin H. Pilkey Pdf

The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands is the latest volume in the series, Living with the Shore. Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular shorelines. As is true for all books in the series, it is based on the premise that understanding the changing nature of beaches and barrier islands is essential if we are to preserve them for future generations. Evidence that the North Carolina shore is changing is never hard to find, but recently the devastation wrought by Hurricane Fran and the perilous situation of the historic lighthouse at Cape Hatteras have reminded all concerned of the fragility of this coast. Arguing for a policy of intelligent development, one in which residential and commercial structures meet rather than confront the changing nature of the shore, the authors have included practical information on hazards of many kinds--storms, tides, floods, erosion, island migration, and earthquakes. Diagrams and photographs clearly illustrate coastal processes and aid in understanding the impact of hurricanes and northeasters, wave and current dynamics, as well as pollution and other environmental destruction due to overdevelopment. A chapter on estuaries provides related information on the shores of back barrier areas that are growing in popularity for recreational residences. Risk maps focus on the natural hazards of each island and together with construction guidelines provide a basis for informed island management. Lastly, the dynamics of coastal politics and management are reviewed through an analysis of the controversies over the decision to move the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and a proposed effort to stabilize Oregon Inlet. From the natural and historic perspective of the opening chapters to the regional discussions of individual barrier islands, this book is both a primer on coastal processes for the first time visitor as well as a guide to hazard identification for property owners.

Author : Mike Bottini
Publisher : UNET 2 Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780974020167

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Exploring East End Waters by Mike Bottini Pdf

The most comprehensive guide to kayaking and canoeing on the East End of Long Island, Mike Bottini

Author : Paul R. Pinet
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284057089

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Invitation to Oceanography by Paul R. Pinet Pdf

The bestselling Invitation to Oceanography continues to provide a modern, comprehensive, and student-friendly introduction to this fascinating field. Spanning the four major divisions of ocean science—geology, chemistry, physics, and biology— it is an ideal text for majors and nonmajors alike. The Seventh Edition has been updated with sophisticated and cutting-edge graphics and photos throughout, and includes trending content on climate change, Superstorm/Hurricane Sandy, and the tsunami in Japan. Updated and expanded feature boxes reinforce key concepts and support knowledge building, and additional information on current research and the clinical and practical applications of oceanography contextualize scientific ideas within a real-world framework. Accessible yet substantive, Invitation to Oceanography, Seventh Edition is the ideal resource for anyone diving into the thrilling depths of the world’s oceans.

Author : Barry Cummins
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780717151479

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Missing and Unsolved: Ireland's Disappeared by Barry Cummins Pdf

They are some of Ireland's most famous names, for all the wrong reasons. They are Ireland's missing women, many of them murdered and their bodies hidden by evil killers who remain at large. They include Annie McCarrick, who was murdered in the Dublin-Wicklow mountains; Jo Jo Dullard, who was abducted and murdered while hitching a lift in Co. Kildare; and Fiona Pender, who was seven months pregnant when she was murdered and hidden at an unknown place in the midlands. And then there are Ireland's missing children. What ever happened to little Mary Boyle, last seen walking near her grandparents' home in Co. Donegal? And where is Philip Cairns, who was abducted from a Co. Dublin roadside while walking to school? Missing is a disturbing book, but it is also a tribute to the remarkable bravery of ordinary families who have lost a loved one in the most cruel and unexplained of circumstances.

Author : Orrin H. Pilkey,Keith C. Pilkey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781478005124

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Sea Level Rise by Orrin H. Pilkey,Keith C. Pilkey Pdf

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees. In Sea Level Rise Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat. Among many topics, they examine sea level rise's effects on coastal ecosystems, health, and native Alaskan coastal communities. They also provide guidelines for those living on the coasts or planning on moving to or away from them, as well as the steps local governments should take to prepare for this unstoppable, impending catastrophe.

Author : Betsy McCully
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781978838932

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At the Glacier’s Edge by Betsy McCully Pdf

Vast salt marshes, ancient grasslands, lush forests, pristine beaches and dunes, and copious inland waters, all surrounded by a teeming sea. These are probably not the first things you imagine when you think of Long Island, but just beyond its highways and housing developments lies a stunning landscape full of diverse plant and animal life. Combining science writing, environmental history, and first-hand accounts from a longtime resident, At the Glacier’s Edge offers a unique narrative natural history of Long Island. Betsy McCully tells the story of how the island was formed at the end of the last ice age, how its habitats evolved, and how humans in the last few hundred years have radically altered and degraded its landscape. Yet as she personally recounts the habitat losses and species declines she has witnessed over the past few decades, she describes the vital efforts that environmental activists are making to restore and reclaim this land—from replanting salt marshes, to preserving remaining grasslands and forests, to cleaning up the waters. At the Glacier’s Edge provides an in-depth look at the flora, fauna and geology that make Long Island so special.

Author : Rutherford H. Platt
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610912631

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Disasters and Democracy by Rutherford H. Platt Pdf

In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of “major disasters” has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters or is it making matters worse? Does it remove incentives for individuals and local communities to take measures to protect themselves? Are people more likely to invest in property in hazardous locations in the belief that, if worse comes to worst, the federal government will bail them out? Disasters and Democracy addresses the political response to natural disasters, focusing specifically on the changing role of the federal government from distant observer to immediate responder and principal financier of disaster costs.

Author : Wallace Kaufman,Orrin H. Pilkey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822382942

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The Beaches Are Moving by Wallace Kaufman,Orrin H. Pilkey Pdf

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.

Author : Mario Russo
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781665733717

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Baby Boomer Rewind by Mario Russo Pdf

This is the story of the Boomer Generation and what it was like growing up during the 1960s, arguably the most exciting and momentous time in our nation’s history. Over 77 million Baby Boomers witnessed the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war, the moon landing, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the sexual revolution and so much more! Whether it was school air raid drills, a first kiss, surfing escapades, Italian Sunday dinners, Christmas Eve celebrations, visits to Brooklyn relatives, cross-country trips, high school proms, part-time jobs, college applications, sexual encounters, or family funerals, we all went through some variation of these adolescent experiences, all delightfully described in Baby Boomer Rewind in a series of entertaining stories. There will never be another Woodstock, nor another Beatles. The author recounts these and other memorable events as well as his personal experiences growing up in the 1960s with amusing stories that reveal what life was like in those amazing times, and how different life was then from now.

Author : Chuck Mansfield
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781669863823

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Fathers True by Chuck Mansfield Pdf

When the author’s son John suggested he write a book about fatherhood, he thought, with all the books on fatherhood, who needs another? He concluded, “Perhaps I do.” While the book is indeed about fatherhood and fathers, it also tells of other fitting paternal exemplars – father figures – who may not have had children of their own but nonetheless have or had the right stuff as men and mentors. A central tenet herein is that good strong fathers are essential to the character building and moral fiber of our young and the very fabric and future of our currently downward-spiraling society. One reviewer writes, “...the testimonials describing the influence for good one person can have over another, be he parent, son, friend, teacher, comrade, barber, sports coach, or even our children are remarkable. The vignettes sometimes evoke amusement, sometimes tears, but lift the spirit and stay in the memory.”

Author : Orrin H. Pilkey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822305151

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Living with the East Florida Shore by Orrin H. Pilkey Pdf

More than one transplanted Floridian has paid $150,000 for a beautiful condominium with a sea view only to learn that, to keep the building from becoming part of the view, considerable additional money must be spent to build and repair seawalls or to pump up new beaches by dredging sand from offshore. Most of Florida's beachfront property lies on narrow strips of sand called barrier islands, which are low in elevation and subject to flooding during storms and hurricanes. Some of the construction is poor, adding to the problems facing homeowners, most whom came from other parts of the country with little awareness of the hazards of beaches. In Living with the East Florida Shore, Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr., of Duke University, along with his co-authors, has described the varied problems that confront the east shore of Florida today.

Author : Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 1960 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 081560808X

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The Encyclopedia of New York State by Peter Eisenstadt Pdf

The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031855695

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Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point, Long Island, Reach 1, New York, Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet, Evaluation of an Interim Plan for Storm Damage Reduction by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : MINN:31951D02275086U

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf