struggle recovery industry carolina

books:

Facing Our Future: Hurricane Floyd and Recovery in the Coastal Plain

1 review

Coastal Carolina Press, 2001

Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes and Related Flooding
When my colleagues and I planned the conference upon which this book was based, we wanted to make sure we would come to understand why Hurricane Floyd wreaked such devastation upon Eastern North Carolina in September of 1999 so we could better inform the public as to the causes and remedies. What we found was that many of the disastrous consequences could have been avoided. A series of freakish ...

Hard Times and a Nickel a Bucket: Struggle and Survival in North Carolina's Shrimp Industry

1 review
John R. Maiolo

Chapel Hill Press, 2004

An informative, easy read
This is a comprehensive and entertaining history of the development of commercial fishing in the southeast. It is also very informative with regard to the momentum coastal development has, and which is threatening the source of its development in the first place--fishing. As multiple use zones, our coastal communities now are the intersections of a variety of conflicting interests. This is one of ...