Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation - Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn 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. Klappentext Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities responding to these threats. In this book, coastal adaptation experts present a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, including concrete financing recommendations. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but it is achievable using varied approaches. 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. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive new book on coastal adaptation which even uniquely addresses financing opportunities and social equity.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn (EDT)/ Fleming Kousky, Carolyn Fleming Kousky
• Assisted by: Alan M Berger (Editor), Alan M Berger (Editor), Alan M. Berger (Editor), Billy Fleming (Editor), Carolyn Kousky (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781642831399
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-139-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Architecture, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, ARCHITECTURE / General, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols