Losing ground identity and land loss in coastal Louisiana
What is it like to lose your front porch to the ocean? To watch saltwater destroy your favorite fishing holes? To see playgrounds and churches subside and succumb to brackish and rising water? The residents of coastal Louisiana know. For them hurricanes are but exclamation points in an incessant los...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797949506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Losing Louisiana: A Meditation on Coastal Land Loss; Chapter Three: Communal Histories; Chapter Four: This Is Our Home: Attachment to the Coast; Chapter Five: Seeing It for Themselves; Chapter Six: Saving Place: Residents and Their Environment; Afterword: The Path Ahead; Appendix; Notes; References; Index
