Land Abandoned to the Sea
Subtitle: The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780755641376
Description: "Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes.  With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, address the new realities of the environment and move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it."--