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Author : California. Board of State Harbor Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : San Francisco Harbor (Calif.)
ISBN : UCBK:C025724293
Author : Simon Stephens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350114661
There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful. Alex's story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and smiles, as he speaks about his wife, visiting her father in the South of France, having a daughter, photography, and the bottom of the sea. His tone is natural, happy and engaging, with flickers of questions about belief and religion glimpsed under the surface. But his contentment falls away into deep and heart-breaking grief, crumbling to pieces with a vividness that is incredibly moving.
Author : Naomi D. Kroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433068563513
Author : Summer Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Climate justice
ISBN : 9780520392731
"In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the edge of the sea to understand the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles for resilience and adaptation. In coastal management debates, seawalls are a deeply contested subject between those in favor of hard structures for mitigating the impacts of sea change and those who advocate measures modeled on natural processes. Summer Gray argues that both approaches involve limited notions of resilience that undermine movements for social and climate justice, and introduces the concept of placekeeping-the struggle to resist colonizing practices of displacement-as a justice-oriented framework for addressing the global dangers of coastal disruption. Drawing on a mix of ethnographic observation, interviews, and archival research, Gray shows how competing logics of adaptation play out on the ground in Guyana and the Maldives-to reveal how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place"--
Author : R. S. Thomas,B. Hall
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483163239
Seawall Design focuses on all aspects of seawall design, from the broader issues of coastal management and other options for coastal defense and environmental assessment, to problem definition and project planning; data collection and interpretation; conceptual and detailed design; design for construction and maintenance; and materials to be used. The reader is guided with respect to the range of potential problems, their definition, and possible solutions, as well as the key functional requirements of a seawall and the methods of design to take due account of engineering and environmental and economic considerations. Comprised of eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the principal function of a seawall and the guidelines for seawall design covering all relevant considerations including environmental aspects, construction, and long-term management. The discussion then turns to regular monitoring of coastal management, options for coastal defense, and the impact of phased works on coastal management. Subsequent chapters deal with project planning and environmental aspects of seawall design; data collection, analysis, and interpretation; and overall concept and types of seawall structure;. Design considerations for a seawall are described, starting with hydraulic performance, the overall stability of the embankment and coastal cliffs as well as structural loads. The book concludes with an assessment of financial and economic considerations in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of seawalls. This monograph is intended for engineers involved in the planning and design of seawalls.
Author : Robert Atkins Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Hydraulic models
ISBN : UOM:39015086516724
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : NYPL:33433062616697
Author : Stephen Robert Miller
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781642832570
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it. Never have so many undertaken such a widespread, hurried attempt to remake the world. Predictably, our hubris has led to unintended—and sometimes disastrous—consequences. Academics call it maladaptation; in simple terms, it’s about solutions that backfire. Over the Seawall tells us the stories behind these unintended consequences and about the fixes that can do more harm than good. From seawalls in coastal Japan, to the reengineered waters in the Ganges River Delta, to the artificial ribbon of water supporting both farms and urban centers in parched Arizona, Stephen Robert Miller traces the histories of engineering marvels that were once deemed too smart and too big to fail. In each he takes us into the land and culture, seeking out locals and experts to better understand how complicated, grandiose schemes led instead to failure, and to find answers to the technologic holes we’ve dug ourselves into. Over the Seawall urges us to take a hard look at the fortifications we build and how they’ve fared in the past. It embraces humanity’s penchant for problem-solving, but argues that if we are to adapt successfully to climate change, we must recognize that working with nature is not surrender but the only way to assure a secure future.
Author : Kimber Fountain
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439660539
Along Galveston's Gulf Coast runs a seventeen-foot-high, ten-mile-long protective barrier--a response to the nation's all-time deadliest natural disaster. The seawall remains a stoic protector more than a century later, shielding the island from much more than physical destruction. As the foundation of Seawall Boulevard, this structure created an entirely new tourism industry that buoyed the city's economy through war, the Great Depression and hurricanes. Adapting to the cultural trends and political movements that defined the past century, the seawall represents the unbreakable spirit of Galveston's resilient population and provides a fascinating glimpse into bygone times.
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089509020
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548803
Author : J. A. Bailard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Beach erosion
ISBN : UCR:31210025046325
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2980346
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1816 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Harbors
ISBN : UCAL:B3076893
Author : Jessica DuLong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501759147
Saved at the Seawall is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered stranded commuters, residents, and visitors out of harm's way. Even before the US Coast Guard called for "all available boats," tugs, ferries, dinner boats, and other vessels had sped to the rescue from points all across New York Harbor. In less than nine hours, captains and crews transported nearly half a million people from Manhattan. Anchored in eyewitness accounts and written by a mariner who served at Ground Zero, Saved at the Seawall weaves together the personal stories of people rescued that day with those of the mariners who saved them. DuLong describes the inner workings of New York Harbor and reveals the collaborative power of its close-knit community. Her chronicle of those crucial hours, when hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, highlights how resourcefulness and basic human goodness triumphed over turmoil on one of America's darkest days. Initially published as Dust to Deliverance, this edition, released in time for the twentieth anniversary, contains new updates: a preface by DuLong and a foreword by Mitchell Zuckoff.