Hard Structures on Beaches
An issue for exploring public resources versus private property, efficient use of public funds, and generally foment a RachelCarson-like Sense of Wonder. Orrin H. Pilkey seems to be the go-to guy on Beaches (How to Read a North Carolina Beach, Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels)
Newjerseyization (sacrificing the beach for construction)
Illustrated effect of Sea Walls
Littoral Cell Thinking(California Example)
Hard Structures on the Beach Explanation (US East Coast)
Recommended Books
for exploring the institutionalization of erosion
- The Corp and The Shore
- Against the Tide
- Cornelia Dean (NYT Science Editor!)
More Pictures of a wasted beach. Building a road on Sand Dunes turns a long beach that supplied communities with fish into engineered wastelands. Sure you can have fun here but it's not an expansive ocean experience.
