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oapen-20.500.12657-770762023-11-15T09:17:26Z Vanishing Sands Pilkey, Orrin H. Longo, Norma J. Neal, William J. Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection Nature Ecosystems & Habitats Coastal Regions & Shorelines bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNK Conservation of the environment bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history::WNW The Earth: natural history general In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of <i>Vanishing Sands</i> track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere. 2023-10-31T05:33:33Z 2023-10-31T05:33:33Z 2023 book 9781478016168 9781478018797 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77076 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf Duke University Press Duke University Press f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478016168 9781478018797 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Duke University Press open access
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In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of <i>Vanishing Sands</i> track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere.
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