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Troubled Waters

Understanding the Science Behind our Coastal Crisis

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Editors:
  1. Stephen J. Culver

    1. Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA

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  • Discusses coastal change from around the world
  • Contains more than 170 illustrations
  • Helps to understand the range of possibilities for coastal responses to inevitable future climate change

Part of the book series: Springer Climate (SPCL)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. A Cautionary Scientific Tale and an Introduction to This Book

    • Stephen J. Culver
    Pages 1-14

  3. Buried Secrets of the North Carolina Coast, USA

    • David J. Mallinson
    Pages 15-31

  4. Time and Tide Wait for No Man

    • Andrew C. Kemp, Benjamin P. Horton
    Pages 33-53

  5. Barrier Island Breakdown: The Ephemeral Outer Banks of North Carolina

    • Stephen J. Culver
    Pages 55-68

  6. A Different Kind of Sea-Level Story from Malaysia

    • Peter R. Parham
    Pages 69-91

  7. What Lies Beneath? Revealing Coastal Processes Through Mapping

    • J. P. Walsh
    Pages 93-108

  8. The Anthropocene, Wait, What? A Basque’s Coastal Experience Helps to Figure It Out

    • Eduardo Leorri
    Pages 109-121

  9. A Tale of Two Hydrogeology Problems in Coastal North Carolina

    • Alex K. Manda
    Pages 123-135

  10. Drilling the North Carolina Coastal Plain – Discovering What Lies Beneath

    • Kathleen M. Farrell
    Pages 137-150

  11. Earthquake-Driven Coastal Change: Ghost Forests, Graveyards and “Komodo Dragons”

    • Andrea D. Hawkes
    Pages 151-167

  12. A Scientist’s Personal 70-Year Discourse with Past, Present and Future Coastal Change

    • Stanley R. Riggs
    Pages 169-188

  13. Climate, Sea Level, and People – Changing South Florida’s Mangrove Coast

    • G. Lynn Wingard
    Pages 189-211

  14. Pictures from Space and Feet in the Mud: Understanding the Value of the World’s Changing Mangrove Forests

    • David Lagomasino
    Pages 213-231

  15. What Is Happening to the World’s Coral Reefs?

    • Pamela Hallock
    Pages 233-252

  16. The Water, the Coast, the Future

    • Joy Moses-Hall
    Pages 253-257

  17. Afterword: The Power of the Ocean

    • Stephen J. Culver
    Pages 259-267
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About this book

The book communicates coastal geology such that the reader gets a better understanding of how scientists work and how scientific knowledge is acquired and how it progresses. It presents the human side of geologic research, including missteps, in this case, research on coastal change of the recent past, the present, and the near future. The audience for this volume is the general public, coastal managers, politicians, and decision makers in general, in the coastal realm. But the implications of this work with regard to future climate change and human responses are relevant globally.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA

    Stephen J. Culver

About the editor

Educated at the University of Wales (Swansea), Steve Culver taught for two years at the University of Sierra Leone before moving to the US in 1978 on a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. Except for a five-year sojourn at the Natural History Museum, London in the 1990s, Professor Culver has taught and conducted coastal research for over 30 years at Old Dominion University and East Carolina University. He is coeditor of a textbook on biotic response to global change over the past 135 million years and coauthor of a popular text on coastal change in North Carolina, USA. His recent research has utilized microfossils (foraminifera) as tools to reconstruct past and understand current coastal environmental change in North Carolina and peninsular Malaysia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Troubled Waters

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding the Science Behind our Coastal Crisis

  • Editors: Stephen J. Culver

  • Series Title: Springer Climate

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52383-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52382-4Published: 29 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52385-5Published: 30 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52383-1Published: 28 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2352-0698

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-0701

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 267

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Coastal Sciences

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