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11 A Scientist’s Personal 70-Year Discourse with Past,
Present and Future Coastal Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Stanley R. Riggs
12 Climate, Sea Level, and People – Changing South Florida’s
Mangrove Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
G. Lynn Wingard
13 Pictures from Space and Feet in the Mud:
Understanding the Value of the World’s
Changing Mangrove Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
David Lagomasino
14 What Is Happening to the World’s Coral Reefs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Pamela Hallock
15 The Water, the Coast, the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Joy Moses-Hall
16 Afterword: The Power of the Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Stephen J. Culver
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