Adaptations of Coastal Cities to Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change and Endemic Hazards, Frederic R. Siegel

Автор: Orrin H. Pilkey, Keith C. Pilkey
Название: Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America`s Shores
ISBN: 1478005068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005063
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees. In Sea Level Rise Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat. Among many topics, they examine sea level rise's effects on coastal ecosystems, health, and native Alaskan coastal communities. They also provide guidelines for those living on the coasts or planning on moving to or away from them, as well as the steps local governments should take to prepare for this unstoppable, impending catastrophe.

Автор: Orrin H. Pilkey, Keith C. Pilkey
Название: Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America`s Shores
ISBN: 1478006374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478006374
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 30090.00 T
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Описание: The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees. In Sea Level Rise Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat. Among many topics, they examine sea level rise's effects on coastal ecosystems, health, and native Alaskan coastal communities. They also provide guidelines for those living on the coasts or planning on moving to or away from them, as well as the steps local governments should take to prepare for this unstoppable, impending catastrophe.

Автор: Nash Stephen
Название: Virginia Climate Fever: How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and Forests
ISBN: 081393995X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813939957
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Описание: Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an increasingly acute and serious nature.In Virginia Climate Fever, environmental journalist Stephen Nash brings home the threat of climate change to the state of Virginia. Weaving together a compelling mix of data and conversations with both respected scientists and Virginians most immediately at risk from global warming’s effects, the author details how Virginia’s climate has already begun to change. In engaging prose and layman’s terms, Nash argues that alteration in the environment will affect not only the state’s cities but also hundreds of square miles of urban and natural coastal areas, the 60 percent of the state that is forested, the Chesapeake Bay, and the near Atlantic, with accompanying threats such as the potential spread of infectious disease. The narrative offers striking descriptions of the vulnerabilities of the state’s many beautiful natural areas, around which much of its tourism industry is built.While remaining respectful of the controversy around global warming, Nash allows the research to speak for itself. In doing so, he offers a practical approach to and urgent warning about the impending impact of climate change in Virginia.

Автор: Taylor Peter J., O`Brien Geoff, O`Keefe Phil
Название: Cities Demanding the Earth: A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency
ISBN: 1529210488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529210484
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Цена: 35630.00 T
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Описание: Unless we make drastic changes, the climate damage that we are causing by living in cities will result in terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption towards making cities spaces for activism.

Автор: Hughes, Sara
Название: Repowering cities
ISBN: 1501740415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501740411
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The conceptualization and execution of Repowering Cities are terrific, and provides readers with a deep understanding of why, how, and to what effect cities have mobilized to mitigate the effects of climate change. ? Michael J. Rich, Emory University, coauthor of Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization

City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As Sara Hughes shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change.

Repowering Cities focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they contribute to climate change mitigation. Hughes uses her framework to assess the successes and failures experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto as those agenda-setting cities have addressed climate change. She then identifies strategies for moving from incremental to transformative change by pinpointing governing strategies able to mobilize the needed resources and actors, build participatory institutions, create capacity for climate-smart governance, and broaden coalitions for urban climate change policy.

Автор: North Gerald R.
Название: The Rise of Climate Science: A Memoir
ISBN: 1623498678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623498672
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Цена: 33270.00 T
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Описание: In a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science. The route he has taken was full of surprising twists and turns that included hate mail and eavesdropping by the KGB. This memoir recounts in detail his life in the vanguard of modern climate science.

Автор: Peter J Taylor, Geoff O`Brien, Phil O`Keefe
Название: Cities Demanding the Earth: A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency
ISBN: 152921047X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529210477
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Unless we make drastic changes, the climate damage that we are causing by living in cities will result in terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption towards making cities spaces for activism.