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Author : Peter Holmblad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789174590685
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coastal Communities on the Move written by Peter Holmblad and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph T. Kelley
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813724600
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's Most Vulnerable Coastal Communities written by Joseph T. Kelley and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sea level is rising, and yet Americans continue to develop beaches with little regard. In this volume, a group of coastal geologists discusses the startling saga of ten U.S. East and Gulf Coast shoreline communities (plus Puerto Rico and some western Europe strands) and the problems created by their inevitable interaction with natural processes in this highly dynamic geologic environment. The authors discuss the geologic context of the hazards of each site as the history of societal responses and their environmental impacts. Response to the natural coastal processes that threaten lives and buildings is carried out in a context of local, state and national politics with fixed short-term engineering solutions (beach replenishment, seawalls) generally favored over longer-term approaches (moving back, prohibition of seawalls). This essential GSA Special Paper foreshadows the impending rise of sea level and the myriad of shoreline responses and political controversies it will provoke."--Publisher's description.
Author : Jeffrey Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1642830127
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New Coast written by Jeffrey Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More severe storms and rising seas will inexorably push the American coastline inland with profound impact on communities, infrastructure, and natural systems. In A New Coast, Jeffrey Peterson presents the science behind predictions for coastal impacts and explains how current policies fall short of what's needed to prepare for these changes. He outlines a framework of bold, new national policies and funding to support local and state governments. Peterson calls for engagement of citizens, the private sector, as well as local and national leaders in a "campaign for a new coast." This is a forward-looking volume offering new insights for policymakers, planners, business leaders preparing for the changes coming to America's coast.
Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009178466
Total Pages : 1807 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 1807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Wallace Kaufman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382946
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Beaches Are Moving written by Wallace Kaufman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you—all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.
Author : Marieclaire Monasterio Vargas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moving Upward! Creating a Toolkit for Managed Retreat in Coastal Communities Due to Sea Level Rise Risk written by Marieclaire Monasterio Vargas and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Principles of Designing for Emotions are dedicated to bridging the gap that currently exists in sustainable design. The set of design principles address the need to humanize sustainability and create a space for emotional exploration in design." --page 90.
Author : Abrahm Lustgarten
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718059
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Move written by Abrahm Lustgarten and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible. Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly. Abrahm Lustgarten’s On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding in coastal regions; extreme heat and humidity in the South; and droughts that will make farming all but impossible across much of the nation. Reporting from the front lines of climate migration, Lustgarten explains how a pattern of shortsighted policies encouraged millions to settle in vulnerable parts of the country, and introduces us to homeowners in California, insurance customers in Florida, and ranchers in Colorado who are being forced to make the agonizing choice of when, not whether, to leave. Employing the most current climate data and predictive models, he shows how America’s population will be squeezed northward into a shrinking triangle of land stretching from Tennessee to Maine to the Great Lakes. The places many of us now call home are at risk, and On the Move reveals how we’ll deal with the consequences.
Author : John Sutton Lutz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773533737
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Making and Moving Knowledge written by John Sutton Lutz and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been acknowledged that research does not directly translate into knowledge nor does knowledge necessarily, or even often, translate into wisdom. Whether the immediate challenge is global warming, epidemic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, our research efforts are all wasted if we cannot devise processes to create and transfer knowledge to policy makers, interested groups and ordinary people in a manner that is efficient and understandable. How we maximize the impact of the research that scholars do and how to combine that with knowledge already extant in "lay" or "local" communities, are key issues in a world with scarce research resources and numerous social and scientific conflicts.Making and Moving Knowledge focuses directly on how knowledge is created, transferred and used and perhaps most important, how it is blocked and atrophies. It treats knowledge generated by universities and governments alongside "traditional" and practical knowledge generated in coastal aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities and looks at how the different kinds flow in different directions. The chapters are theoretical, methodological, and applied as the authors model their commitment to knowledge transfer in their work with community, academics and policy makers.
Author : Raymond James Green
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402068875
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coastal Towns in Transition written by Raymond James Green and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-13 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and the "sea change phenomenon" – the migration of affluent urbanites to small coastal towns seeking beautiful, natural surroundings. In response to these changes local residents in these places often complain that the distinctive character of their towns and/or individual neighborhoods is being lost or degraded. Coastal Towns in Transition looks at how changes due to unsympathetic development of the built environment and modification of the natural landscape are perceived to negatively impact on the character of small coastal towns. The book explores the concept of town character, and associated notions of sense of place, genius loci and place identity, as conceptualised by local residents in several coastal town communities along Australia’s Great Ocean Road. Findings of a four-year study involving over 1800 respondents from these communities are used to explore theoretical and methodological issues associated with the assessment of place character in the context of coastal towns that are experiencing rapid environmental change. This book will be of interest to planners and environmental designers, as well as scholars in both landscape studies and social science and planning fields who are interested in the sustainable development of coastal areas. The case studies and associated planning and design strategies, together with the bibliography of selected relevant literature, will provide an invaluable reference for these scholars.
Author : Anna Seeger
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781477619582
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beach Living written by Anna Seeger and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions plan their summer vacations at sunny beach destinations. However, coastal living is a different matter. I have always dreamed of what beach life would be like for a permanent resident. Approaching the big 50, I decided it was now or never. I started researching beaches. I thought anything is possible. So I started looking at coastal towns primarily in the United States. It was so exciting. I was looking at my computer screen making sounds as if I was eating a box of chocolates. The ooh...awe, oh my, this is my favorite, oh isn't this beautiful became common sounds. I found there are many reasons for people moving to the coast. It isn't always just to swim in the waters, walk on the beach, snorkel and listen to the waves crash along the shore. I knew that I had enjoyed many of these activities when I visited the beach, but I never realized that these and other different coastal activities were some of the primary reasons others wanted to relocate to a beach town. There are 7 main reasons people love about living at the beach. They are as follows: (1) Beachcombers - Includes those laid back people that just want to walk along the beach and pick up the sea shells. (2) Water Lovers - Kayakers, kiteboarders, snorkelers, scuba divers - active water enthusiasts. (3) Boating Group - Like to ride the ocean waves by sail, paddle, or motor. (4) Fishing Enthusiasts - People that love to fish the seas and shorelines. (5) Nature Lovers - Folks that enjoy seaside birds, animals and critters that emerge from the sand. (6) Lovers of Culture - Sophisticates that enjoy the arts with an ocean view. (7) Golfing Addicts - Golfers that crave the ultimate golfing experience of Scottish style links against a backdrop of vast blue water.
