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Altered Environments The Outer Banks of North Carolina
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Using the Outer Banks as a case study to frame a host of environmental challenges faced along the Atlantic seaboard today, the Pompes provide a valuable commentary on the historical context of thes...
Using the Outer Banks as a case study to frame a host of environmental challenges faced along the Atlantic seaboard today, the Pompes provide a valuable commentary on the historical context of these concerns and offer some insightful solutions that allow for sustainable communities.
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- Creator
- text by Jeffrey Pompe ; photographs by Kathleen Pompe
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2010
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- ISBNs
- 128385533X, 9781570039232, 9781283855334, 9781611172140, 1611172144, 1570039232
- OCLC
- ocn826660125, ocn519836407
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- A place created by change -- Change by nature -- Change by humankind -- Understanding the "sea of troubles" facing coastal communities -- Attempts at controlling change by nature -- Living with change in coastal communities -- Time and change -- An apprenticeship with change
Subjects
- Social change -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks -- History.
- Human ecology -- History -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks -- Human ecology -- History.
- Coastal ecology -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks -- History.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks -- History.
- Natural history -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks.
- Landscape changes -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks -- History.
- Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Social conditions.
- Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Pictorial works.
- Outer Banks (N.C.) -- History.
- Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Environmental conditions.