Silt Sand Slurry

Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making

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‘Silt Sand Slurry’ is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts…
 
Size: 8” x 10” Portrait
Pages: 388pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: Spring 2024
ISBN: 978-1-954081-84-0
World Rights: Available
 
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“The topic and our approach to it is timely. Climate change, environmental transformation, and the design of equitable, effective responses are pressing concerns for coastal regions throughout the United States and globally.”

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‘Silt Sand Slurry’ is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts. Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches. Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than ‘natural’ geologic processes — yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-understood.

In four thematic text chapters, four geographic visual studies, and a concluding essay, we demonstrate why sediment matters now more than ever, given our contemporary context of sea level rise, environmental change, and spatial inequality. We do this through a documentation of the geography of dredging and sediment on the four coasts of the continental United States. The book explores the many limitations of current sediment management practices, such as short-sighted efforts to keep dynamic ecosystems from changing, failure to value sediment as a resource, and inequitable decision-making processes. In response to these conditions, we delineate an approach to designing with sediment that is adaptive, healthy, and equitable.

Authors

Rob Holmes is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Auburn University. Brett Milligan is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Davis. Gena Wirth is design principal at SCAPE Landscape Architecture. The authors are members of the Dredge Research Collaborative, an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization which aims to improve sediment management through design research, building public knowledge, and facilitating transdisciplinary conversation. Their work with the DRC has received numerous awards, including two national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and includes design projects on all four coasts of the continental United States.

Three other members of the Dredge Research Collaborative, Sean Burkholder, Brian Davis, and Justine Holzman, also contribute essays, and the book includes five interviews with experts, public agencies, and environmental justice leaders.

Additional Info

Size: 8” x 10” Portrait
Pages: 388pp
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Date: Spring 2024
ISBN: 978-1-954081-84-0
World Rights: Available


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Silt Sand Slurry

“The topic and our approach to it is timely. Climate change, environmental transformation, and the design of equitable, effective responses are pressing concerns for coastal regions throughout the United States and globally.”

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Asia - Singapore & China
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Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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USA - San Francisco Bay Area
Tel: +1(415) 883-3300
USA - New York
Tel: +1(646) 322-2466
Asia - Singapore & China
Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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