Land Abandoned to the Sea: The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788310857)

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.

Author: Stuart Oliver
ISBN-10: 1788310853
ISBN-13: 9781788310857
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2021
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d