A New Coast Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas
"This is a timely book... [It] should be mandatory reading for all persons seeking election to high public office. Followed by a test, with posted grades." Minnesota Star Tribune "A New Coast is a compelling assessment of the dramatic changes that are coming to America's coast. P...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42934229*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: A Warming Climate Drives Coastal Storms and Rising Seas
- Coastal Storms, Coastal Nightmare
- Sea Level Rise Projections: Trending Upward
- Measuring the Shifting Coast
- Part II: Storms and Rising Seas Disrupt the American Coast
- Scale and Economic Cost of the Coming Inundation
- Coastal Storm and Sea Level Rise Risks to Critical Infrastructure
- Coastal Ecosystems Facing Inundation: Wetlands and Beaches
- Private Sector Losses as Seas Rise: Tourism, Fishing, and Energy
- Part III: A Nation Unprepared for Coastal Storms and Rising Seas
- The Politics of Coastal Storms and Rising Seas
- National Flood Insurance Program: Coastal Misdirection
- Coastal Disaster Planning: Preparing for the Wrong Hazard
- Coastal Management Problems: Overcommitted and Underfunded
- National Planning for Climate Change: An Answer to Coastal Inundation?- Part IV: States, Communities, and Businesses Cope with Coastal Storms and Rising Seas
- Novel Challenges of Storms and Rising Seas
- State and Community Choices in Preparing for a Changing Coast
- Relocation: Often the Inevitable Choice
- Social and Psychological Dimensions of Storms and Rising Seas
- Business Community Response to Storms and Rising Seas
- Part V: Campaign for a New Coast
- Framework for a National Storm and Sea Level Rise Program
- Funding Coastal Storm and Sea Level Rise Preparedness
- Campaign for a New Coast
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Appendices
- Endnotes.
