by ACS.Admin | Jun 16, 2023 | Blog
Mining and the Coast Coastal landscapes in many parts of the world have been transformed, or in other ways impacted, by mining. This includes oil and gas extraction. Any visit to Cornwall will provide a visual reminder of tin mining from ages past. Societies and...
by ACS.Admin | May 31, 2023 | Blog
Loss of Towns and Villages to the Sea Coastal policy discussion around adaptation to climate change frequently invokes the “holy trinity”: protect, accommodate, retreat. Such discussion provokes property owners at potential risk of coastal erosion/shoreline recession...
by ACS.Admin | May 19, 2023 | Blog
Mangroves from a Geomorphologist Perspective Before arriving in Baton Rouge to commence graduate studies at Louisiana State University in late 1962, I attended a lecture in Sydney by a mangrove ecologist named Bill Macnae. He was a South African visiting Australian...
by ACS.Admin | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
Complex Disasters: Compounding, Cascading and Protracted I recently received a copy of a book edited by Anna Lukasiewicz and Tayanah O’Donnell entitled “Complex Disasters: Compounding, Cascading and Protracted”. It was published late 2022 as part of a series by...
by ACS.Admin | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog
Coasts and Climate Change – Don Wright’s Perspective Many Australian coastal colleagues know Don Wright either personally or through his publications. I have been privileged to have been a colleague since the early 1907s when we teamed up to study...