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OverviewTens 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 identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities. In this book, coastal adaptation experts discuss the interrelated challenges facing communities experiencing sea level rise and increasing storm impacts. These issues extend far beyond land use planning into housing policy, financing for public infrastructure, insurance, fostering healthier coastal ecosystems, and more. Deftly addressing far-reaching problems from cleaning up contaminated, abandoned sites, to changes in drinking water composition, chapters give a clear-eyed view of how we might yet chart a course for thriving coastal communities. They offer a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, while preserving the economic value of these locations, their natural environments, and their community and cultural values. Lessons are drawn from coastal communities around the United States to present equitable solutions. The book provides tools for evaluating necessary trade-offs to think more comprehensively about the future of our coastal communities. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but planning for it is critical to the survival of many communities. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carolyn Kousky , Billy Fleming , Alan M BergerPublisher: Island Press Imprint: Island Press ISBN: 9781642831399ISBN 10: 1642831395 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 28 July 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsForeword, Jeff Goodell Introduction Section I: New Approaches to Designing and Implementing Coastal Resilience 1. Structures of Coastal Resilience: Adaptive Design for Jamaica Bay, Catherine Seavitt 2. Coastal Urbanism: Designing the Future Waterfront, Rafi Segal and Susannah Drake 3. Dutch Design along the American Coast, Matthijs Bouw 4. Resilient by Design in San Francisco, Karen M'Closkey and Keith Vandersys Section II: Planning the Next Generation of Coastal Communities 5. A Comprehensive Framework for Coastal Risk Reduction: Charting a Path Towards Resiliency, Sam Brody 6. Coding Flux: From “End-State’ Zoning to Zoning Process and Potential, Fadi Masoud and David Vega-Barachowitz 7. Adapting Coastal Drinking Water to Rising Seas, Allison Lassiter Section III: Innovative Policy and Finance for Coastal Adaptation 8. Public Financing of Coastal Adaptation, Carlos Martin 9. Adapt/Prepare/Retreat: A Tale of Two Cities, Joyce Coffee 10. New Options for Financing – Environmental Impact Bonds, Shannon Cunniff 11. Clean Up after Yourselves: Legal and Financial Options for Relocation Clean Up, Thomas Ruppert ConclusionReviewsCoastal vulnerability and adaptation are so, so complex, and are often treated in narrow, economistic ways that underplay the roles of politics, culture, infrastructure, and resistance by private interests. I'm excited to see this partnership of design schools with business schools and their taking up of such a range of issues. This is a breakthrough volume. --Timmons Roberts, Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, Brown University and coauthor of Power in a Warming World This collection provides a range of ideas and stories grounded in present systems and structures. It identifies challenges and recommendations that will help support early transitions in the next phase of coastal adaptation planning, policy, and practice. --Kristin Baja, Programs Director, Climate Resilience, Urban Sustainability Directors Network The publication aims to mitigate the inequities that are amplified in global emergency scenarios. It offers insight into how to navigate the institutions and entities involved in coastal adaptation, while providing an alternative design strategy for infrastructural, landscape and urban adaptation. It acknowledges the world of landscape adaptation as a collaborative endeavor, and insight into the scope for action and the thinking required to transform vulnerable coastline areas. -- Landscape Australia Everyone should read this book to see how the field of landscape architecture might help cities adapt to a changing climate, particularly with new federally-funded infrastructure investments. Each chapter of this book reaches beyond the conventional limits of our professional knowledge, by degrees or by leaps. But the most important bar this anthology has set for other books about adaptation is to place questions about funding and policy side-by-side with design proposals. -- The Dirt ASLA Coastal vulnerability and adaptation are so, so complex, and are often treated in narrow, economistic ways that underplay the roles of politics, culture, infrastructure, and resistance by private interests. I'm excited to see this partnership of design schools with business schools and their taking up of such a range of issues. This is a breakthrough volume. --Timmons Roberts, Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, Brown University and coauthor of Power in a Warming World This collection provides a range of ideas and stories grounded in present systems and structures. It identifies challenges and recommendations that will help support early transitions in the next phase of coastal adaptation planning, policy, and practice. --Kristin Baja, Programs Director, Climate Resilience, Urban Sustainability Directors Network """Coastal vulnerability and adaptation are so, so complex, and are often treated in narrow, economistic ways that underplay the roles of politics, culture, infrastructure, and resistance by private interests. I'm excited to see this partnership of design schools with business schools and their taking up of such a range of issues. This is a breakthrough volume.""--Timmons Roberts, Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, Brown University and coauthor of ""Power in a Warming World"" ""The publication aims to mitigate the inequities that are amplified in global emergency scenarios. It offers insight into how to navigate the institutions and entities involved in coastal adaptation, while providing an alternative design strategy for infrastructural, landscape and urban adaptation. It acknowledges the world of landscape adaptation as a collaborative endeavor, and insight into the scope for action and the thinking required to transform vulnerable coastline areas.""-- ""Landscape Australia"" ""Everyone should read this book to see how the field of landscape architecture might help cities adapt to a changing climate, particularly with new federally-funded infrastructure investments. Each chapter of this book reaches beyond the conventional limits of our professional knowledge, by degrees or by leaps. But the most important bar this anthology has set for other books about adaptation is to place questions about funding and policy side-by-side with design proposals.""-- ""The Dirt ASLA"" ""This collection provides a range of ideas and stories grounded in present systems and structures. It identifies challenges and recommendations that will help support early transitions in the next phase of coastal adaptation planning, policy, and practice.""--Kristin Baja, Programs Director, Climate Resilience, Urban Sustainability Directors Network" Author InformationCarolyn Kousky is Executive Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Billy Fleming is the Wilks Family Director for The Ian L. McHarg Center at PennDesign. Alan Berger is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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