TY - BOOK AU - Stodola, Sarah TI - The Last Resort: : A Chronicle of Paradise Profit, and Peril at the Beach SN - 9780062951625 PY - 2022/// CY - USA PB - Ecco KW - Beach tourism. KW - G154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism N2 - In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints, and the inevitable overdevelopment and decline that comes with a soaring demand for popular shorelines ER -