A blueprint for coastal adaptation : uniting design, economics, and policy /

Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. The design and policy decisions that have shaped coastal areas are in desperate need of updates to help communities better adapt to a changing climate. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kousky, Carolyn (Editor), Fleming, Billy (Editor), Berger, Alan, 1964- (Editor), Goodell, Jeff (author of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Coastal zone management.
Coast changes.
City planning > Climatic factors.
Coastal ecosystem health.
Littoral > Aménagement.
Littoral > Modifications.
Littoral > Santé.
Coastal zone management
City planning > Climatic factors
Coast changes
Coastal ecosystem health
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The changing risks of coastal communities
  • Part I. Designing for equitable resilience. A comprehensive framework for coastal flood-risk reduction : charting a course toward resiliency
  • Designing for resilience in rich coastal cities (and beyond)
  • For whom do we account in climate adaptation?
  • Preparation, adaptation, and retreat in Miami Beach and Buras
  • Head of Bay Coastal Resilience : adaptive design for Jamaica Bay, New York
  • Part II. Adapting public policy and finance. Public funding of coastal adaptation : a review of US public sources - and the case for more
  • Insurance and coastal adaptation
  • Environmental impact bonds : an innovation in financing climate adaptation
  • Adapting coastal drinking water to rising seas
  • Take out the trash when you leave : cleaning up properties abandoned to rising seas
  • Flux zoning : from end-state planning to zoning for uncertainty
  • Coastal urbanism : designing the future waterfront.

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