Land Abandoned to the Sea

The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas

Dr Stuart Oliver (St Mary's University, UK)

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20 October 2022

Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment & Planning; Physical geography & topography; Human geography; Political geography

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.

By: Dr Stuart Oliver (St Mary's University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780755641376
ISBN 10: 075564137X
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 20 October 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 Managed realignment and its context Chapter 2 Stakeholder ecologies and managed realignment Chapter 3: Inventing managed realignment Chapter 4: The community of reception of managed realignment Chapter 5. Making the new wetlands: the sites of managed realignment Chapter 6: The place of managed realignment Conclusion Index

Stuart Oliver is a lecturer at St.Mary's University, London, UK.

Reviews for Land Abandoned to the Sea: The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas

This is a fine and tightly argued book about the transformation of the liminal edges of land and sea. The climate crisis will bring new challenges with rising seas, yet the east coast has long been a site for storm surge and raised sea walls, for deliberate breach and realignment. Such changes exemplify inner shifts too – how we think about nature, how we might seek to influence or stand back. * Professor Jules Pretty OBE, author of This Luminous Coast (2011) and The East Country (2017) *