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Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities

Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities

Aerts, Jeroen
Botzen, Wouter
Bowman, Malcolm

Hardcover

Series: Earthscan Climate

Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental StudiesUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1849713464
ISBN13: 9781849713467
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 7 2011
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities, including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta. The comparison draws out lessons that each city can learn from the others. While the main focus is on coastal flooding, cities are also affected by climate change in other ways, including impacts that occur away from the coast. The New York City Water Supply System, for example, stretches as far as 120 miles upstate, and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has undertaken extensive climate assessment, not only for its coastal facilities, but also for its upstate facilities which will be affected by rising temperatures, droughts, inland flooding and water quality changes.

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