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Ain't There No More
Brasseaux, Carl A.; Davis, Donald W.
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Description for Ain't There No More
Hardback. A harrowing account of coastal erosion, long neglect, and a man-made disaster in the Bayou State Series: America's Third Coast Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HBJK; HBLW3; RNP; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1429.
For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands survivors have gained through painful experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful adaptation of modern coastal communities throughout the globe. As Hurricane Sandy recently demonstrated, coastal peoples everywhere face rising sea levels, disastrous coastal erosion, and, inevitably, difficult lifestyle choices.
Along the Bayou State's coast the most insidious challenges are man-made. Since channelization of the Mississippi River ... Read more
For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands survivors have gained through painful experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful adaptation of modern coastal communities throughout the globe. As Hurricane Sandy recently demonstrated, coastal peoples everywhere face rising sea levels, disastrous coastal erosion, and, inevitably, difficult lifestyle choices.
Along the Bayou State's coast the most insidious challenges are man-made. Since channelization of the Mississippi River ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
America's Third Coast Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496809483
SKU
V9781496809483
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Ref
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About Brasseaux, Carl A.; Davis, Donald W.
South Louisiana native Carl A. Brasseaux, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA former director of the Center for Louisiana Studies, has spent a lifetime studying the peoples and cultures of the Louisiana coastal plain. He is the author of more than three dozen books and more than one hundred scholarly articles, including Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 and Creoles of ... Read more
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