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California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
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Xia's book, "California Against the Sea," explores the challenges and urgency of forging a climate-wise future along California's 1,200-mile coastline, weighing the rivaling arguments, agreements, compromises, and visions governing the State of California's commitment to a coast for all.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 344 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2024
Publisher: Heyday Books
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
An Architect s Newspaper
Best Book of 2023
2024 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Medal Winner
Now 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 Yorker
Along 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.
Weight: 444g
Dimension: 209 x 141 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781597146586
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