Climate Change and the Coast
eBook - PDF

Climate Change and the Coast

Building Resilient Communities

  1. 596 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Climate Change and the Coast

Building Resilient Communities

About this book

Coastal communities are at the frontline of a changing climate. Escalating problems created by sea-level rise, a greater number of severe coastal storms, and other repercussions of climate change will exacerbate already pervasive impacts resulting from rapid coastal population growth and intensification of development. To prosper in the coming deca

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Editors
  7. Contributors
  8. Chapter 1: Introduction
  9. Chapter 2: Climate drivers in the coastal zone
  10. Chapter 3: On the frontline in the Anthropocene : Adapting to climate change through deliberative coastal governance
  11. Chapter 4: Social-ecological change in Canada’s Arctic : Coping, adapting, and learning for an uncertain future
  12. Chapter 5: Climate change and infrastructure adaptation in coastal New York City
  13. Chapter 6: Crisis on the delta : Emerging trajectories for New Orleans
  14. Chapter 7: Building resilient coastal communities by enabling participatory action : A case study from India
  15. Chapter 8: Climate adaptation technologies in agriculture and water supply and sanitation practice in the coastal region of Bangladesh
  16. Chapter 9: Coastal zone management and climate policy in Vietnam
  17. Chapter 10: A climate for change : A comparative analysis of climate change adaptation in rapidly urbanizing Australian and Chinese city regions
  18. Chapter 11: The evolution of coastal vulnerability assessments to support adaptive decision-making in Australia : A review
  19. Chapter 12: Adapting Australian coastal regions to climate change : A case study of South East Queensland
  20. Chapter 13: From coping to resilience : The role of managed retreat in highly developed coastal regions of New Zealand
  21. Chapter 14: A tale of two atoll nations : A comparison of risk, resilience, and adaptive response of Kiribati and the Maldives
  22. Chapter 15: Planning for coastal change in Caribbean small islands
  23. Chapter 16: A risk-based and participatory approach to assessing climate vulnerability and improving governance in coastal Uruguay
  24. Chapter 17: The promise of coastal management in Brazil in times of global climate change
  25. Chapter 18: Toward adaptive management in coastal zones : Experience from the eastern coastline of England
  26. Chapter 19: Adaptation to change in the North Sea area : Maritime spatial planning as a new planning challenge in times of climate change
  27. Chapter 20: Mainstreaming climate change adaptation with existing coastal management for the Mediterranean coastal region
  28. Chapter 21: Climate change and the coastal zone of Mozambique : Supporting decision-making for community-based adaptation
  29. Chapter 22: Climate change and the coasts of Africa : Durban case study
  30. Chapter 23: Toward reflexive adaptation and resilient coastal communities
  31. Back Cover