In the words of the architect/biologist team Ted Cavanagh and Alison Evans, 'the territorial waters of most countries are sites of increasing and conflicting human use. Resource extraction, touristic gentrification and increasing privatisation are gradually modifying the dynamic ecology and natural resilience of the ocean and coastal waters. Over-fishing and habitat destruction are endangering many species that currently sustain the world's coastal population. The ocean receives the "downstream" impact of land use - often the result of tiny individual decisions that accumulate insidiously - known as nan-point-source pollution. Our continued practice of the hardening of our land and coasts is just one instance of our inability to adapt to environmental forces. In short, the coastal zone is a site of increasing jeopardy.' The ways in which ecological problems goad us into redefining the shape of our environment and of space itself are dramatically presented in this case study of the larger North American eastern seaboard.
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