This review examines current anthropological literature concerned with migration and other forms of population movement, and with the movement of information, symbols, capital, and commodities in global and transnational spaces. Special attention is given to the significance of contemporary increases in the volume and velocity of such flows for the dynamics of communities and for the identity of their members. Also examined are innovations in anthropological theory and forms of representation that are responses to such nonlocal contexts and influences.
Dramatic losses of tidal wetlands in the Mississippi Delta and a few areas along the U.S. Atlantic coast have raised concerns about whether these marshes will survive if global sea level continues to rise due to greenhouse warming [Stevenson et al., 1986]. Original greenhouse warming sea‐level scenarios projected global sea levels several meters or more higher than present by 2100 [Barth and Titus, 1984], which would result in the disappearance of all coastal marshes, as the scarcity of marsh deposits from the rapid transgression during the middle Holocene testifies [Rampino and Sanders, 1981]. However, more recent estimates of global sealevel change suggest that some coastal marshes could survive [Douglas et al., 2000].
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