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Coast lines : how mapmakers frame the world and chart environmental change / Mark Monmonier.

by Monmonier, Mark S.

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University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Coastal mapping.

Environmental monitoring.

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9780226534039 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226534030 (cloth : alk. paper)

xiii, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index.

1. Depiction and Measurement -- 2. Definitions and Delineations -- 3. New Worlds and Fictitious Islands -- 4. Triangles and Topography -- 5. Overhead Imaging -- 6. Electronic Charts and Precise Positioning -- 7. Global Shorelines -- 8. Baselines and Offshore Borders -- 9. Calibrating Catastrophe -- 10. Rising Seas, Eroding Surge -- 11. Close-Ups and Complexity -- 12. Epilogue.

"In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that Mark Monmonier tackles in Coast Lines." "Whether for sailing charts or property maps, Monmonier shows, coastlines challenge mapmakers to capture on paper a highly irregular land-water boundary perturbed by tides and storms and complicated by rocks, wrecks, and shoals. Coast Lines is peppered with captivating anecdotes about the frustrating effort to expunge fictitious islands from nautical charts, the tricky measurement of a coastline's length, and the contentious notions of beachfront property and public access."--BOOK JACKET.

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