Rob Young

A pirate was killed in a hijack attempt earlier this week by an on-board security guard, and Somali pirate attacks are continuing to increase. But the effects of these attacks reach beyond the ocean to land, as piracy has been found to be linked to a housing bubble in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rob Young director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines and professor of geosciences at Western Carolina University and Orrin Pilkey, professor emeritus in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, author of The Corps and the Shore, and editor of the twenty-volume series Living with ...