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Disappearing Destinations examines the future ecological and physical resiliency of shorelines, which currently are besieged by the conjoined impacts of tourism growth and global climate change. The authors of this collection of papers review the likely consequences of these anthropogenic forces on coastal zones, offering an assortment of management strategies and policy initiatives designed to mitigate future environmental threats. The first seven chapters deal with climate change and its challenges for tourism, risk management, knowledge gaps, law, the media, and research agendas. The subsequent ten chapters review the current state of and offer possible amelioration schemes for specific coastal localities (in the Mediterranean, the UK and Ireland, the US, Southeast Asia, Australia, Antarctica, the Azores, and the Balearic Islands). The final chapter offers a summary and a reflection of the issues and solutions posed by the various papers. The perspective brought out in the book and the reference lists are vital for land use planners, conservationists, managers, and policy personnel. However, the breadth, depth, and clarity of the 18 chapters are uneven, as is commonly the case in volumes that offer a global, multiauthored, multispecialist perspective. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. P. R. Pinet Colgate University