Books by Orrin H. Pilkey

  •  Prediction
    Prediction Stanley A. Changnon

    Jazz on the river

    Prediction

    Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature

    Stanley A. Changnon

    The idea that predictive science can simplify the decision-making process by creating a clearer picture of the future is deeply appealing in principle, but deeply problematic in practice.Prediction ...

  • The Corps and the Shore
    The Corps and the Shore Orrin H. Pilkey

    Jazz on the river

    The Corps and the Shore

    Orrin H. Pilkey

    For more than a century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been building fortifications along the American coastline in an effort to protect our vulnerable shores. With the prospect of seaborne ...

  • The Rising Sea
    The Rising Sea Orrin H. Pilkey

    Jazz on the river

    The Rising Sea

    Orrin H. Pilkey

    On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a ...

About the Author

Orrin Pilkey is a research professor, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Earth & Ocean Sciences, and Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) within the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University.
 
Pilkey is the recipient of many science, teaching, and public service awards, including, in 1999, the Outstanding Public Service Award from FEMA. He is co-editor and sometimes co-author of the ongoing 22 volume, state specific Living with the Shore series published by the Duke University Press, as well as The Corps and the Shore (Island Press), Living by the Rules of the Sea (Duke University Press), and A Celebration of the Worlds Barrier Islands (Columbia University Press).