A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes
Author:   Joana Gaspar de Freitas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032329277


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
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Author:   Joana Gaspar de Freitas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032329277


ISBN 10:   1032329270
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Prologue: A path through the dunes 1. Pulling the dunes out of the archives 2. The moving dunes 3. Dealing with sand drift 4. Turning dunes into forests 5. Sowing the sands 6. Crossing the Atlantic 7. Reaching the Pacific 8. The sands of the Indian Ocean 9. Contested practices, unstable environments 10. Dunes as a destination 11. Vanishing coasts 12. Connecting the dots

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Joana Gaspar de Freitas is an environmental historian at the Center for History, in the School of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has held fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center (Munich, 2015), the Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, 2014), and the Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (Lisbon, 2011–2018). Between 2018 and 2024, she was the principal investigator of the project ""Sea, Sand and People: An Environmental History of Coastal Dunes"" (2018–2024), funded by an ERC Starting Grant. She is currently one of the editors of the journal Coastal Studies and Society.

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