Salty Urbanism is a concept that refers to the ways in which cities and urban areas will respond and adapt to rising sea levels and the accompanying increase in salinity of coastal and near-coastal land. This phenomenon is caused by a combination...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917173)
Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Grounding her work in the dynamic landscape of Miami but r...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917180)
Reimagining adaptation amidst climate changedriven mutations of urban space and life Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expanding real estate market powered by global surges of people and capital, Miami is an...Lasīt vairāk
This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institutes SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.It reflects on topics wh...Lasīt vairāk
Salty Urbanism is a concept that refers to the ways in which cities and urban areas will respond and adapt to rising sea levels and the accompanying increase in salinity of coastal and near-coastal land. This phenomenon is caused by a combination...Lasīt vairāk
This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institutes SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.It reflects on topics wh...Lasīt vairāk
Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, Hannah L. Hayes
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jan-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478016168)
In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the worlds sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects...Lasīt vairāk
Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, Hannah L. Hayes
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jan-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478018797)
In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the worlds sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction project...Lasīt vairāk
What happens under international law if a state perishes due to rising sea levels without a successor state being created? Will the state cease to exist? What would this mean for its population? Have international law and globalization progressed en...Lasīt vairāk
This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection...Lasīt vairāk
This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection me...Lasīt vairāk
This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts. This challenge goes further than the ability to resist the impacts of extreme weather conditions. Coping with climate impacts and the ab...Lasīt vairāk
Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and ...Lasīt vairāk
Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and ...Lasīt vairāk
This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts. This challenge goes further than the ability to resist the impacts of extreme weather conditions. Coping with climate impacts and the ab...Lasīt vairāk
Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collaps...Lasīt vairāk
Temperature and precipitation increase and decrease because of natural causes. However, anthropogenic changes, such as an enhanced greenhouse effect, may result in alterations in the regional climate and in relative sea level. Serious changes in clim...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Sep-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478005063)
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Sep-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478006374)
Acknowledging the impending worldwide catastrophe of rising seas in the twenty-first century, Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey outline the impacts on the United States shoreline and argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S....Lasīt vairāk
As cities build more flood-management infrastructure to adapt to the effects of a changing climate, they must go beyond short-term flood protection and consider the long-term effects on the community, its environment, economy, and relationship w...Lasīt vairāk
