The Battle for North Carolina's Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future
"Riggs and his co-authors deserve a lot of credit for their ideas. Hopefully somebody will take them seriously."--Lawyers, Guns and Moneyblog"The authors make you feel being physically on the North Carolina barrier islands, and they make you see how both gradual processes and events shape the barriers, erode inlets, close inlets again, etc."--Geologos"The real strength ofThe Battle for North Carolina's Coastis the numerous photographs, diagrams, and maps (most of which are in color) that do an excellent job of illustrating North Carolina's coastal dynamics. . . . It would be difficult to find authors better acquainted with the geology of this particular coastline."--Environmental History"An exceptional, affordable book with clear prose, succinct logic, a fine bibliography, and 72 superb color illustrations . . . . Riggs and colleagues offer a reasonable plan that, if implemented soon, will protect the natural shore system and mitigate its erosion rates, as well as nourish North Carolina's resource-based coastal economy over the long term.  Highly recommended."--Choice"Readers will walk away with a deep understanding of the forces that created and continue to rework North Carolina's unsettled coast."--RaleighNews and Observer