Thomas Ankersen is legal skills professor and director at Conservation Clinic at the University of Florida College of Law.
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Rural America
Climate Change and Privatization Could End the Public Beach
Sea-level rise on one side and private development on the other threaten to squeeze beaches, and public access to them, out of existence.
Thomas Ankersen