Download or read book Resident Perception of Shoreline Recession in Nags Head North Carolina written by Lisa Elaine Hosey and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Departments of Geography in the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Aspects of Beach Processes Sediment and Erosion in the Coastal Region of North Carolina written by C. J. Leith and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Graduate Departments of Geography in the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beaches Are Moving written by Wallace Kaufman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you—all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.

Download or read book Shoreline Defense Against Climate Change and Capitalized Impact of Beach Nourishment written by Yun Qiu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beach communities respond to storm risks through shoreline stabilization policies and often rebuild eroding beaches with sand dredged from offshore locations and inlets. Investments in natural capital through beach nourishment are, at least partly, capitalized in coastal property values. We combine data on housing sales between 2008 and 2014 in Dare County, North Carolina with geo-spatial information on the timing and location of the first beach nourishment in the town of Nags Head to estimate the perceived risk-reduction effect, using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. We find that the effect is heterogeneous both within and across nourished and unnourished regions. Triple difference estimates reveal that investment in nourishment results in a price premium of 11.7% to 16.5% for oceanfront homes located in a nourished beach. Converting the average treatment effect of 13.4% from our preferred model to aggregate benefits capitalized by oceanfront homes in Nags Head suggests that the value of beach nourishment exceeds $16 million.

Download or read book Striking a Balance written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Analysis of Coastal Recession Models with Application to the Coast of North Carolina written by Thomas Weldon Davis and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Outer Banks of North Carolina written by Robert Dolan and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Outer Banks Tourists Preferences Sensitivities and Environmental Perceptions A Case Study of Cape Hatteras National Seashore written by Logan M. McSherry and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is the driving economic force for North Carolina's Outer Banks, attracting millions of visitors every year. However, through the combined effects of increased human activity and development, storms, sea level rise, and climate change, portions of the island chain are disappearing. This study seeks to better understand why visitors choose the Outer Banks, how aware and concerned they are about environmental changes occurring there, and how that may affect their beach destination choice in the future. To address these questions, a survey of 137 visitors at Cape Hatteras National Seashore was undertaken. The relative sensitivity to seven environmental variables is considered and differences in perception among local and non-local beachgoers are compared. Analyses of scores and responses to survey questions show that scenery and uncrowded beaches are the primary reasons for choosing the Outer Banks, followed closely by location and accessibility. Visitors appear to be generally conscious of the changing environment there, with a majority of respondents saying they were aware of environmental changes at the Outer Banks prior to being surveyed. However, only half of respondents indicate experiencing effects from these changes during their visit. As such, respondents expressed environmental changes as having little to no effect on their decision to return, with over 95% claiming they will still recommend the Outer Banks and revisit in the future. For many, the fact that the Outer Banks remains relatively undeveloped compared to other East Coast beaches constitutes enough reason to return in spite of other changes.

Download or read book Beach Erosion and Beach Nourishment written by Robert Dolan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drowning the North Carolina Coast written by Stanley R. Riggs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Green Paradox written by Hans-Werner Sinn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground. The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach—which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy—has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts to promote alternative energy, impose emission controls on cars, and enforce tough energy-efficiency standards for buildings, the relentlessly rising curve of CO2 output does not show the slightest downward turn. Some proposed solutions are downright harmful: cultivating crops to make biofuels not only contributes to global warming but also uses resources that should be devoted to feeding the world's hungry. In The Green Paradox, Sinn proposes a new, more pragmatic approach based not on regulating the demand for fossil fuels but on controlling the supply. The owners of carbon resources, Sinn explains, are pre-empting future regulation by accelerating the production of fossil energy while they can. This is the “Green Paradox”: expected future reduction in carbon consumption has the effect of accelerating climate change. Sinn suggests a supply-side solution: inducing the owners of carbon resources to leave more of their wealth underground. He proposes the swift introduction of a “Super-Kyoto” system—gathering all consumer countries into a cartel by means of a worldwide, coordinated cap-and-trade system supported by the levying of source taxes on capital income—to spoil the resource owners' appetite for financial assets. Only if we can shift our focus from local demand to worldwide supply policies for reducing carbon emissions, Sinn argues, will we have a chance of staving off climate disaster.

Download or read book North Carolina and Its Resources written by North Carolina. Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coasts in Crisis written by S. Jeffress Williams and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coastal Resources Management written by Research Planning Institute (Columbia, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preference Data for Environmental Valuation written by John Whitehead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monetary valuation of environmental goods and services has evolved from a fringe field of study in the late 1970s and early 1980s to a primary focus of environmental economists over the past decade. Despite its rapid growth, practitioners of valuation techniques often find themselves defending their practices to both users of the results of applied studies and, perhaps more troubling, to other practitioners. One of the more heated threads of this internal debate over valuation techniques revolves around the types of data to use in performing a valuation study. In the infant years of the development of valuation techniques, two schools of thought emerged: the revealed preference school and the stated preference school, the latter of which is perhaps most associated with the contingent valuation method. In the midst of this debate an exciting new approach to non-market valuation was developed in the 1990s: a combination and joint estimation of revealed preference and stated preference data. There are two primary objectives for this book. One objective is to fill a gap in the nonmarket valuation "primer" literature. A number of books have appeared over the past decade that develop the theory and methods of nonmarket valuation but each takes an individual nonmarket valuation method approach. This book considers each of these valuation methods in combination with another method. These relationships can be exploited econometrically to obtain more valid and reliable estimates of willingness-to-pay relative to the individual methods. The second objective is to showcase recent and novel applications of data combination and joint estimation via a set of original, state-of-the-art studies that are contributed by leading researchers in the field. This book will be accessible to economists and consultants working in business or government, as well as an invaluable resource for researchers and students alike.