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Sea change : an atlas of islands in a rising ocean / Christina Gerhardt ; [ forewords, Bill McKibben, Hilda Heine, Dessima Williams ; maps, Molly Roy ; design, Lia Tjandra.

by Gerhardt, Christina.

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University of California Press, 2023.

Journalists -- United States -- 21st century -- Essays.

Environmental geography.

Ocean -- Environmental aspects.

Islands -- Environmental aspects.

Global warming.

9780520304826 (hc.)

x, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-308).

"Gerhardt’s book...feature[s], on each spread, a map of an island or island group; visualizations of the island's sea level today and in 2050 and 2100; geographic data about each island; demographic data about its Indigenous inhabitants; a timeline of Indigenous, 'pre-contact,' and climate-related histories; and an essay on the island and its inhabitants. Each narrative ... depict[s] various 'solutions' deployed both by global and national governments and by Indigenous peoples: from sea walls and geoengineering to preserving and restoring coral and oyster reefs, mangrove marshes, wetlands, and other natural buffers."--Barnes&Noble editorial, The Avery Review.

Christina Gerhardt is associate professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Barron Professor of Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Her environmental journalism has been published by Grist.org, The Nation, The Progressive, and the Washington Monthly.

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