Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes

This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting that narratives have a role to play in climate change science, policymaking, and citizenship awareness. For scholars, researchers, and students of environmental history, environmental science, sustainability, coastal land management, and climate change.

List of contents

Prologue: A path through the dunes 1. Pulling the dunes out of the archives 2. The moving dunes 3. Dealing with sand drift 4. Turning dunes into forests 5. Sowing the sands 6. Crossing the Atlantic 7. Reaching the Pacific 8. The sands of the Indian Ocean 9. Contested practices, unstable environments 10. Dunes as a destination 11. Vanishing coasts 12. Connecting the dots

About the author

Joana Gaspar de Freitas is an environmental historian at the Center for History, in the School of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has held fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center (Munich, 2015), the Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, 2014), and the Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (Lisbon, 2011–2018). Between 2018 and 2024, she was the principal investigator of the project "Sea, Sand and People: An Environmental History of Coastal Dunes" (2018–2024), funded by an ERC Starting Grant. She is currently one of the editors of the journal Coastal Studies and Society.

Summary

This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting that narratives have a role to play in climate change science, policymaking, and citizenship awareness. For scholars, researchers, and students of environmental history, environmental science, sustainability, coastal land management, and climate change.

Product details

• Authors: Joana Gaspar de Freitas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032329253
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232925-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Environmental History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts, The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, Science / Environmental Science, Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Coastlines, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Landscape architecture and design, Arid zones, deserts