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Vanishing Sands - Losing Beaches to Mining (Hardcover)
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Vanishing Sands - Losing Beaches to Mining (Hardcover)
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In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly
intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never
been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order
to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand
mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and
exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands
track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over
the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean
to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand
mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems
are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups
use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations.
Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the
authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not
only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and
tourism economies everywhere.
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