The beach beneath the road
Subtitle: sustainable coastal development beyond governance and economics
By: Chad Stephen Boda
Series: LUCSUS Lunds universitets centrum för studier av uthållig samhällsutveckling -- 16
Publisher: Lund University Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Lund
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9789198220155
Description: That Florida is in the midst of an ecological crisis is a perspective increasingly shared by academy, government, private industry and civil society. Ideas about the causes of the state's environmental problems and how best to address them, however, are not so well aligned. While some are prone to emphasize the primacy of economic growth over environmental conservation, others argue that, like love and marriage, you cannot have one without the other. More particularly, Florida's many densely populated barrier islands are experiencing increasingly severe critical erosion, threatening people, property and endangered species habitat. In the face of expanding urban development, rising seas and coastal squeeze, the traditional strategies for managing erosion are looking less and less appropriate and the need for a sustainable coastal development strategy more and more apparent.