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For many of us, the coast represents warm summer days at a welcoming beach—swimming, sea birds, and sandcastles. Yet that ideal does not reflect the full reality. Instead, water pollution, beach erosion, habitat destruction, and other forces are currently threatening coastal areas all along the United States.
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Burroughs, R. (2011). Coastal Challenges. In: Coastal Governance. Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-016-3_1
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