| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-214) and index. |
| Contents |
Depiction and measurement -- Definitions and delineations -- New worlds and fictitious islands -- Triangles and topography -- Overhead imaging -- Electronic charts and precise positioning -- Global shorelines -- Baselines and offshore borders -- Calibrating catastrophe -- Rising seas, eroding surge -- Close-ups and complexity. |
| Summary |
In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence--chiefly economic, residential, and environmental--as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that Mark Monmonier tackles in Coast Lines. Setting sail on a journey across shifting landscapes, cartographic technology, and climate change, Monmonier reveal. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Coastal mapping.
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Coastal mapping. |
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Environmental monitoring.
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Environmental monitoring. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monmonier, Mark S. Coast lines. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008 9780226534039 0226534030 (DLC) 2007035429 (OCoLC)167511857 |
| ISBN |
9780226534046 (electronic book) |
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0226534049 (electronic book) |
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1281965995 |
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9781281965998 |
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9780226534039 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226534030 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
2756188 |
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