Calibrating Coastal Resilience
Author: Sonia R Chao
Publisher:
Published: 2024-12-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781032473284
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Structures of Coastal Resilience
Author: Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1610918584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFront Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic, The New York Times -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Designing for Coastal Resiliency -- Chapter 2. Visualizing the Coast -- Chapter 3. Reimagining the Floodplain -- Chapter 4. Mapping Coastal Futures -- Chapter 5. Centennial Projections -- Afterword by Jeffrey P. Hebert, vice-president for adaptation and resilience, The Water Institute of the Gulf -- Endnotes -- Glossary -- Index
Planning for Coastal Resilience
Author: Timothy Beatley
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1610911423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate change is predicted to increase the frequency and magnitude of coastal storms around the globe, and the anticipated rise of sea levels will have enormous impact on fragile and vulnerable coastal regions. In the U.S., more than 50% of the population inhabits coastal areas. In Planning for Coastal Resilience, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience. In this timely book, he writes that coastal resilience must become the primary design and planning principle to guide all future development and all future infrastructure decisions. Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly new way of viewing coastal infrastructure—an approach that values smaller, decentralized kinds of energy, water, and transport more suited to the serious physical conditions coastal communities will likely face. Implicit in the notion is an emphasis on taking steps to build adaptive capacity, to be ready ahead of a crisis or disaster. It is anticipatory, conscious, and intentional in its outlook. After defining and explaining coastal resilience, Beatley focuses on what it means in practice. Resilience goes beyond reactive steps to prevent or handle a disaster. It takes a holistic approach to what makes a community resilient, including such factors as social capital and sense of place. Beatley provides case studies of five U.S. coastal communities, and “resilience profiles” of six North American communities, to suggest best practices and to propose guidelines for increasing resilience in threatened communities.
Coastal Resilience
Author: Joe Cone
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"On November 23, 2010, Oregon Sea Grant facilitated a teleconference discussion among 13 coastal resilience experts to exchange information, experience, and ideas that ultimately could help coastal communities become more resilient, in short by identifying some roles and strategies for both research and community practice ... To set the stage, two dominant definitions in resilience studies -- engineering resilience and ecological resilience -- were recapped. Participants voiced several concerns over the limitations of these definitions, such as: certain socioeconomic groups may be marginalized by looking at the entire system and not its subcomponents; too much emphasis may be placed on returning to a previous state, rather than adapting and evolving to a new state; and focusing too much on immediate hazards may not adequately address the longer and slower variables that will make for greater resilience over time. Discussants expressed a variety of factors that influence how resilient individual communities can be, including social variables at different scales -- for example, social capital (e.g., networks) and national, state, and local policies and laws. Zoning laws determine where both homeowners and businesses build, for example; people want and need to live where amenities are present. In addition, insurance rates and property taxes both potentially encourage or reinforce detrimental behaviors, such as building in areas prone to inundation or erosion. For some communities -- those that have already been hit hard or are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change impacts -- outside assistance may be necessary. This last point raised a difficult ethical question: how much of a financial burden is too much for coastal communities to extend to the rest of society, particularly for risky and costly coastal actions (e.g., siting buildings in hazardous areas)? ... The discussion closed with ideas for next steps, such as pursuing further similar discussions (including with additional specialists from such groups as the insurance industry), drafting one or more white papers, and convening the group at a relevant conference."--Executive summary.
Integrated Coastal Resilience
Author: C. Reid Nichols
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 3031681533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoastal Resilience at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water
Author: Kristin B. Raub
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal climate change poses increased threats to coastal communities. The resilience of coastal communities relies on the protection and continued availability of essential services such as food, energy, and water (FEW) systems. However, the intersection of FEW nexus research and coastal resilience planning has not been well explored. This dissertation seeks to further the goal of operationalizing resilience planning by examining the usefulness of resilience tools and toolkits that have been developed in recent years and exploring how the FEW nexus approach has been applied to coastal resilience planning in both academic and grey literature. The first chapter provides the history of resilience and the FEW nexus as well as the policy and planning challenges associated with combining the two bodies of research. The second chapter explores the utility of tools for on-the-ground resilience planning and implementation needs through interviews with members of state Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Programs and federal and nonprofit partners. Results suggested that local community needs are better addressed when end-users play a role in the tool development process and that CZM Program networks should be leveraged to identify solutions and disseminate information. The third chapter examines how the FEW nexus has been incorporated with coastal resilience planning in peer-reviewed scholarly articles through a systematic literature review. Results reveal three main findings: 1. The FEW nexus approach provides a method to consider systems interdependencies in the context of coastal resilience planning, 2. Coastal resilience planning should consider an energy-centric perspective of the FEW nexus, and 3. The FEW nexus should be expanded to include other systems, namely transportation. Building upon research of academic studies in chapter three, the fourth chapter investigated how the FEW nexus was incorporated into grey resilience literature. Resilience plans from eleven coastal US cities are assessed to understand: 1. How risks to food, energy, water, and transportation (FEWT) systems were addressed within the community resilience plans, and 2. To what extent a nexus approach had been used in resilience plan development. Results reveal that the transportation and energy were the most commonly considered while the food system was least represented within the resilience plans. A FEWT nexus perspective did not appear to be employed during creation of each cities' resilience plan. Chapter five concludes that the findings across these chapters support the idea that employing a food, energy, water, and transportation approach can enhance coastal resilience planning efforts, and is a valuable area ripe for future research.
Dynamics of the Coastal Zone
Author: Matteo Postacchini
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 3039284843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe coastal zone is the host to many human activities, which have significantly increased in the last decades. However, sea level rise and more frequent storm events severely affect beaches and coastal structures, with negative consequences and dramatic impacts on coastal communities. These aspects add to typical coastal problems, like flooding and beach erosion, which already leading to large economic losses and human fatalities. Modeling is thus fundamental for an exhaustive understanding of the nearshore region in the present and future environment. Innovative tools and technologies may help to better understand coastal processes in terms of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, bed morphology, and their interaction with coastal structures. This book collects several contributions focusing on nearshore dynamics, and span among several time and spatial scales using both physical and numerical approaches. The aim is to describe the most recent advances in coastal dynamics.
Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780309311830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Hurricane- and coastal-storm-related losses have increased substantially during the past century, largely due to increases in population and development in the most susceptible coastal areas. Climate change poses additional threats to coastal communities from sea level rise and possible increases in strength of the largest hurricanes. Several large cities in the United States have extensive assets at risk to coastal storms, along with countless smaller cities and developed areas. The devastation from Superstorm Sandy has heightened the nation's awareness of these vulnerabilities. What can we do to better prepare for and respond to the increasing risks of loss? Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts reviews the coastal risk-reduction strategies and levels of protection that have been used along the United States East and Gulf Coasts to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding associated with storm surges. This report evaluates their effectiveness in terms of economic return, protection of life safety, and minimization of environmental effects. According to this report, the vast majority of the funding for coastal risk-related issues is provided only after a disaster occurs. This report calls for the development of a national vision for coastal risk management that includes a long-term view, regional solutions, and recognition of the full array of economic, social, environmental, and life-safety benefits that come from risk reduction efforts. To support this vision, Reducing Coastal Risk states that a national coastal risk assessment is needed to identify those areas with the greatest risks that are high priorities for risk reduction efforts. The report discusses the implications of expanding the extent and levels of coastal storm surge protection in terms of operation and maintenance costs and the availability of resources. Reducing Coastal Risk recommends that benefit-cost analysis, constrained by acceptable risk criteria and other important environmental and social factors, be used as a framework for evaluating national investments in coastal risk reduction. The recommendations of this report will assist engineers, planners and policy makers at national, regional, state, and local levels to move from a nation that is primarily reactive to coastal disasters to one that invests wisely in coastal risk reduction and builds resilience among coastal communities."--Publisher's description.
Building Coastal Resilience for Greater US Security
Author: Roger-Mark De Souza
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing from a series of discussions convened by the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, this essay explores the challenges facing our coastal communities in a series of discussions designed to advance US resilience to climate change impacts, strengthen the sustainability and economic security of coastal infrastructure, and enhance national security. Areas of discussion include understanding the state of scientific knowledge, identifying important gaps, and exploring relevant policies, decision-support tools, and decision-making approaches." -- publisher.
Living Shorelines
Author: Donna Marie Bilkovic
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-03-03
Total Pages: 956
ISBN-13: 1351647504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection. This book will serve as a valuable reference to guide scientists, students, managers, planners, regulators, environmental and engineering consultants, and others engaged in the design and implementation of living shorelines. This volume provides a background and history of living shorelines, understandings on management, policy, and project designs, technical synthesis of the science related to living shorelines including insights from new studies, and the identification of research needs, lessons learned, and perspectives on future guidance. Makes recommendations on the correct usage of the term living shorelines Offers guidance for shoreline management in the future Includes lessons learned from the practice of shoreline restoration/conservation Synthesizes regional perspectives to identify strategies for the successful design and implementation of living shorelines Reviews specific design criteria for successful implementation of living shorelines Provides detailed discussions of social, regulatory, scientific and technical considerations to justify and design living shoreline projects International perspectives are presented from leading researchers and managers in the East, West and Gulf coasts of the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia that are working on natural approaches to shoreline management. The broad geographic scope and interdisciplinary nature of contributing authors will help to facilitate dialogue and transfer knowledge among different disciplines and across different regions. This book provides coastal communities with the scientific foundation and practical guidance necessary to implement effective shoreline management that enhances ecosystem services and coastal resilience now and into the future.
