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Fotografen Janne Klerk har gennemfotograferet Danmarks vidtstrakte kyster, dér hvor landet holder op, og det våde element tager over. Nogle gange manifeste­rer denne zone mellem land og vand sig brat som en amputeret skrænt, der er blevet slået sønder af storme og rasende bølger, andre gange er den en mild strand­eng, som tegner en umærkelig overgang mellem land og hav, mellem grønt og blåt. Sejt og vedholdende har Janne Klerk opsøgt de upåagtede kystområder eller har sat sit fotostativ op på kendte og ikoniske turistdestinationer, som hun afæsker nye, visuelle sandheder. Med dette 2-binds pragtværk har hun skabt en ode til Danmark.

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner * Golden Poppy Award Winner for Nonfiction * California Book Awards Gold Medal Winner * A Great Read from Great Places selected by the Library of Congress * A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year * American Book Award Winner * 2024 American Energy Society's Energy Writer of the Year * An Architect's Newspaper Best Book of 2023 * 2024 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Medal WinnerNow in paperback: a "deeply researched and reported" (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of sea level rise in California that "breathes exquisite detail and dialogue" (Science Magazine) into the subject."Viscerally urgent, thoroughly reported, and compellingly written—a must-read for our uncertain times." —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World"When do seawalls make sense? And when is it better to give in to the tides? [...] In California Against the Sea, Xia [...] writes about the difficult realities of trying to incorporate fairness into our tally of costs and benefits." —The New YorkerAlong California's 1,200-mile coastline, the overheated Pacific Ocean is rising and pressing in, imperiling both wildlife and the maritime towns and cities that 27 million people call home. In California Against the Sea, Los Angeles Times coastal reporter Rosanna Xia asks: As climate chaos threatens the places we love so fiercely, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?Xia, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, investigates the impacts of engineered landscapes, the market pressures of development, and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved our contemporary coastline—and foretell even greater changes to our shores. From the beaches of the Mexican border up to the sheer-cliffed North Coast, the voices of Indigenous leaders, community activists, small-town mayors, urban engineers, and tenacious environmental scientists commingle. Together, they chronicle the challenges and urgency of forging a climate-wise future. Xia's investigation takes us to Imperial Beach, Los Angeles, Pacifica, Marin City, San Francisco, and beyond, weighing the rivaling arguments, agreements, compromises, and visions governing the State of California’s commitment to a coast for all. Through graceful reportage, she charts how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into natural disaster, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship.

"Pictures of Beach front Business" catches the quintessence of the unpredictable and clamoring universe of ocean ports, furnishing perusers with a striking embroidery of sea exchange and industry. In this investigation, the book digs into the different pictures painted by the beach front ports, each portraying an extraordinary story of trade, network, and worldwide trade. The story of "Pictures of Waterfront Business" unfurls against the background of dynamic seascapes, where gigantic vessels, weighed down with freight from far off shores, explore through the rhythmic movement of worldwide exchange. The book enlightens the meaning of these ports as crucial hubs in the worldwide monetary organization, filling in as conductors for the trading of merchandise, societies, and thoughts. Through careful narrating, the book acquaints perusers with the characters that populate these clamoring beach front centers - the stevedores working enthusiastically on the docks, the skippers arranging the many-sided artful dance of sea traffic, and the traders took part in dealings that rise above borders. Every representation exemplifies the human part of waterfront trade, depicting the versatility, assurance, and kinship that characterize the oceanic local area.The waterfront ports themselves arise as focal characters in the story. "Pictures of Beach front Business" welcomes perusers to investigate the structural wonders of these ports, from transcending cranes dumping transporting holders to broad stockrooms putting away a horde of items anticipating conveyance. The ports, such as living substances, revive the beach front districts, forming the monetary scenes and cultivating a harmonious relationship with the networks they serve. The book's investigation of beach front business stretches out past the actual framework, diving into the mechanical advancements that have changed these ports into centers of effectiveness and maintainability. Perusers witness the coordination of state of the art advancements, for example, computerized holder dealing with and blockchain in strategies, which smooth out tasks and upgrade the general effectiveness of worldwide exchange. "Pictures of Beach front Business" likewise disentangles the natural effect of sea exchange, recognizing the sensitive harmony between financial flourishing and biological obligation. The book reveals insight into drives inside seaside ports pointed toward lessening carbon impressions, taking on environmentally friendly power energy arrangements, and carrying out reasonable practices that line up with the protection of marine biological systems. At last, the story woven in "Pictures of Seaside Business" is one of interconnectedness - a festival of the different countenances and stories that add to the energy of oceanic exchange. The book welcomes perusers on an excursion across the oceans, where the representations of seaside business wake up, displaying the strength, development, and joint effort that characterize these fundamental doors to the world. In its investigation, the book uncovers that behind each holder stacked on a boat and each exchange directed at a port lies a story of human undertaking and a representation of beach front business painted with strokes of globalization and interconnectedness.

Steven Croft explores the natural beauty in his birth-state of Georgia, where his poems bring the reader to the lush coastal landscapes of the Barrier Islands and the nurturing comforts of Southern living.

In this thrilling work--a blend of history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism--acclaimed writer James Bradley plunges into the unknown to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world.Seventy-one percent of the earth's surface is ocean. These waters created, shaped, and continue to sustain not just human life, but all life on Planet Earth, and perhaps beyond it. They serve as the stage for our cultural history--driving human development from evolution through exploration, colonialism, and the modern era of global leisure and trade. They are also the harbingers of the future--much of life on Earth cannot survive if sea levels are too low or too high, temperatures too cold or too warm. Our oceans are vast spaces of immense wonder and beauty, and our relationship to them is innate and awe inspired.Deep Water is both a lyrically written personal meditation and an intriguing wide-ranging reported epic that reckons with our complex connection to the seas. It is a story shaped by tidal movements and deep currents, lit by the insights of philosophers, scientists, artists and other great minds. Bradley takes readers from the atomic creation of the oceans, to the wonders within, such as fish migrations guided by electromagnetic sensing. He describes the impacts of human population shifts by boat andspeaks directly and uncompromisingly to the environmental catastrophe that is already impacting our lives. It is also a celebration of the ocean's glories and the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers who are unlocking its secrets. These myriad strands are woven together into a tapestry of life that captures not only our relationship with the planet, but our past, and perhaps most importantly, what lies ahead for us.A brilliant blend of Robert MacFarlane's Underland, Susan Casey's The Underworld, and Simon Winchester's Pacific and The Atlantic, Deep Water taps into the essence of our plant and who we are.

Beach Life isthe fourth design book from author Lauren Liess and explores the beauty and culture of coastal living

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2024Tim Hannigan undertakes an epic east-west journey on foot through his own homeland, from the woodlands of the Tamar Valley to the remote western region of Penwith. As he walks, he explores how the Cornwall of the popular imagination has been constructed by writers, artists and others, and how myths, projections and tropes intersect with the real Cornwall - its landscapes, histories, communities and sense of self. A richly informative tour of one of the most popular regions of Britain, The Granite Kingdom can be read as an evocative travelogue, a celebration of Cornwall's landscapes, a fascinating account of its history and cultural significance, and an unflinching exploration of uneasy questions about regional identity.

"A couple's affectionate retrospective of their decade spent living off the grid, in a coastal paradise for paddlers, whale watchers, and naturalists."--

Decorate your space with a collage kit to make your room your own with these 60 coastal cards.

A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country.

This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh.

This intimate photo essay tracks Cape Cod's vibrant plant and animal ecosystems through a year of dormancy, rebirth, and migration!

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told.A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America's dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different.In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way.Just as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet.

A global blue economy is an economic arena that depends on the benefits and values realized from the coastal and marine environments. This book explains the "sustainable blue economy" as a marine-based economy that provides social and economic benefits for current and future generations. It restores, protects, and maintains the diversity, productivity, and resilience of marine ecosystems, and is based on clean technologies, renewable energy, and circular material flows.

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