The Rising Tide: Global Warming And World Sea Levels - Hardcover

Edgerton, Lynne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155963068X ISBN 13: 9781559630689

Publisher: Island Press, 1991

Synopsis

The Rising Tide is the first analysis of global warming and world sea level rise. It outlines state, national, and international actions to respond to the effects of global warming on coastal communities and ecosystems.

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About the Author:

Lynne Edgerton is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on global warming and sea level rise. As an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City for over six year, at the time of publication, she was involved in many environmental protection battles to preserve the nation's coasts, most notably as a litigator to secure the phase-out of the ocean dumping of New York City's contaminated sewage sludge offshore of New York and New Jersey. Ms. Edgerton holds degrees from both the undergraduate and law school of Vanderbilt University and from Yale School of Law. She served on the Board of the Climate Institute and is co-author of the coastal sections of the proposed International Convention on Climate Change submitted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in February 1990. She was one of a small group of Americans invited by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization to attend the 1990 Second World Climate Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1989, Ms. Edgerton co-founded NRDC's Los Angeles office. Since her arrival in Southern California, she has focused on securing clean air and clean coasts. She is co-author of No Safe Harbor, an NRDC report on oil tanker safety which recommends ways to lessen oil spill risks.

From Library Journal:

The warming of the global atmosphere caused by the greenhouse effect has resulted in a rise in the sea level, changed ocean circulation patterns, and more frequent and intense coastal storms. Scientific studies predict a further 0.7 meter rise by the year 2050, with significant effects on coastal areas: beaches and barrier island will be eroded and inundated; estuaries will become more salty; there will be saltwater intrusion into groundwater supplies; and commercially important fisheries will be affected. The author, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, outlines current methods for dealing with this problem and urges the implementation of retreat and relocation plans, the only strategies endorsed by planners and scientists. This volume, which includes appendixes of relevant state, federal, and international documents, is suitable for concerned general readers as well as elected officials and planners, and should be available in academic and public libraries in both inland and coastal regions. --Judith B. Barnett, Pell Marine Science Lib., Univ. of Rhode Island, Narragansett
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 155963068X
• ISBN 13: 9781559630689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 157