Land Abandoned to the Sea - The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas

Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, address the new realities of the environment and move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.>

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Oliver
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780755641376
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-4137-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Political Geography, Physical geography & topography, Human Geography, Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning, Physical geography and topography