Signed by one of the authors on the front flyleaf (see photo)
Book Title ~ Paving Paradise ~ Florida's Vanishing Wetlands And The Failure Of No Net Loss
Author ~ Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite
Publisher ~ University Press Of Florida.
© Date ~ 2009, 2010, stated First Paperback Printing. Number Line 15 14 13 12 11 10 6 5 4 3 2 1.
Cover ~ Softcover.
Number of Pages ~ 352 pages with Index.
Illustrated ~ Yes, with a map and some photographs.
Book measures about ~ 9 1/8 inches X 6 inches.
Condition ~ Very Good. The Book is signed which makes it no longer Like New. It would be Like New if it wasn't signed.
About the Book ~
"Since 1990, every president has pledged to protect wetlands, and Florida possesses more than any state except Alaska. And yet, since that time Florida has lost more than 84,000 acres of wetlands that help replenish the water supply and protect against flooding.
How and why the state’s wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and negligence on the part of federal and state agencies that led to a failure to enforce regulations on developers. They traveled throughout the state, interviewed hundreds of people, dug through thousands of documents, and analyzed satellite imagery to identify former wetlands that were now houses, stores, and parking lots.
The result was an award~winning series, "Vanishing Wetlands," of more than twenty stories in the St. Petersburg Times, exposing the unseen environmental consequences of rampant sprawl. Expanding their work into book form in the tradition of Michael Grunwald's The Swamp, Pittman and Waite explain how wetland protection has become a taxpayer~funded program that creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the tide of destruction."