Living with the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia′s Ocean Shores

List of figures and tables vii
Foreword xiii
1. The dynamic coast 1
2. Coastal environments 25
3. Shoreline engineering: stabilizing the unstable 43
4. Selecting a site along the shores of Chesapeake Bay 73
5. The open-ocean shoreline 148
6. Coastal land use and the law 155
7. Building or buying a house near the shore 166
Appendix A. Hurricanes 192
Appendix B. A guide to federal, state, and local agencies involved in coastal development 198
Appendix C. Useful references 204
Index 228