Land Abandoned to the Sea

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Land Abandoned to the Sea is written by Stuart Oliver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0755602803 (ISBN 10) and 9780755602803 (ISBN 13).

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, addressing the new realities of the environment and a move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.