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Discover the captivating insights of Silt Sand Slurry, a brand new trade paperback that boldly explores the crucial role of sediment in shaping America’s coasts. This visually rich investigation delves into the unseen infrastructure of our natural world, illuminating how silt and sand are essential to modern life. From deepening underwater highways for massive container ships to controlling floods by diverting river basins, sediment management is at the forefront of environmental sustainability.
The book thoroughly addresses the modern challenges posed by anthropogenic actions, which now surpass natural geological processes in sediment movement. Through four detailed thematic chapters and geographic visual studies from all four coasts of the continental United States, readers will gain a profound understanding of why sediment is more important than ever in today's context of environmental change and sea level rise.
Silt Sand Slurry also critically evaluates current sediment management practices, shedding light on the inequities and limitations inherent in these systems. Learn how adaptive, healthy, and equitable sediment design principles can help shape our future in harmony with nature. Ideal for environmental scientists, policymakers, and anyone interested in sustainable practices, Silt Sand Slurry is an essential read that balances aesthetic appeal with academic rigor.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Year: 2022. Publisher: Actar D. ISBN: 9781954081840.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781954081840
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Actar D
Description:
Silt Sand Slurry is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts.
Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches. Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than â€natural’ geologic processes — yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-understood.
In four thematic text chapters, four geographic visual studies, and a concluding essay, we demonstrate why sediment matters now more than ever, given our contemporary context of sea level rise, environmental change, and spatial inequality. We do this through a documentation of the geography of dredging and sediment on the four coasts of the continental United States. The book explores the many limitations of current sediment management practices, such as short-sighted efforts to keep dynamic ecosystems from changing, failure to value sediment as a resource, and inequitable decision-making processes. In response to these conditions, we delineate an approach to designing with sediment that is adaptive, healthy, and equitable.
The book thoroughly addresses the modern challenges posed by anthropogenic actions, which now surpass natural geological processes in sediment movement. Through four detailed thematic chapters and geographic visual studies from all four coasts of the continental United States, readers will gain a profound understanding of why sediment is more important than ever in today's context of environmental change and sea level rise.
Silt Sand Slurry also critically evaluates current sediment management practices, shedding light on the inequities and limitations inherent in these systems. Learn how adaptive, healthy, and equitable sediment design principles can help shape our future in harmony with nature. Ideal for environmental scientists, policymakers, and anyone interested in sustainable practices, Silt Sand Slurry is an essential read that balances aesthetic appeal with academic rigor.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Year: 2022. Publisher: Actar D. ISBN: 9781954081840.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781954081840
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Actar D
Description:
Silt Sand Slurry is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts.
Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches. Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than â€natural’ geologic processes — yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-understood.
In four thematic text chapters, four geographic visual studies, and a concluding essay, we demonstrate why sediment matters now more than ever, given our contemporary context of sea level rise, environmental change, and spatial inequality. We do this through a documentation of the geography of dredging and sediment on the four coasts of the continental United States. The book explores the many limitations of current sediment management practices, such as short-sighted efforts to keep dynamic ecosystems from changing, failure to value sediment as a resource, and inequitable decision-making processes. In response to these conditions, we delineate an approach to designing with sediment that is adaptive, healthy, and equitable.