Coasts Under Stress

Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health

By Rosemary E. Ommer
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Hardcover : 9780773532038, 592 pages, August 2007
Paperback : 9780773532250, 592 pages, August 2007
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773576018, 592 pages, August 2007

Description

Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.