Download or read book Coasts Under Stress written by Rosemary E. Ommer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.