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Climate Change and the Coast
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Building Resilient Communities
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Building Resilient Communities
Edited ByBruce Glavovic, Mick Kelly, Robert Kay, Ailbhe Travers
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 5 February 2015
Pub. Location London
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 596
eBook ISBN 9780429182884
Subjects Earth Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Geography
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Glavovic, B., Kelly, M., Kay, R., & Travers, A. (Eds.). (2015). Climate Change and the Coast: Building Resilient Communities (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b18053
ABSTRACT
Coastal communities are at the frontline of a changing climate. Escalating problems created by sea-level rise, a greater number of severe coastal storms, and other repercussions of climate change will exacerbate already pervasive impacts resulting from rapid coastal population growth and intensification of development. To prosper in the coming deca
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|52 pages
On the frontline in the Anthropocene: Adapting to climate change through deliberative coastal governance
ByBRUCE C. GLAVOVIC
chapter 4|22 pages
Social-ecological change in Canada’s Arctic: Coping, adapting, and learning for an uncertain future
ByDEREK ARMITAGE
chapter 5|22 pages
Climate change and infrastructure adaptation in coastal New York City
ByWILLIAM SOLECKI, CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG, VIVIEN GORNITZ, RADLEY HORTON, DAVID C. MAJOR, LESLEY PATRICK, RAE ZIMMERMAN
chapter 6|22 pages
Crisis on the delta: Emerging trajectories for New Orleans
ByJOSHUA A. LEWIS, ANN M. YOACHIM, DOUGLAS J. MEFFERT
chapter 7|16 pages
Building resilient coastal communities by enabling participatory action: A case study from India
ByR. RAMESH, AHANA LAKSHMI, ANNIE GEORGE, R. PURVAJA
chapter 8|18 pages
Climate adaptation technologies in agriculture and water supply and sanitation practice in the coastal region of Bangladesh
BySALEEMUL HUQ AND M. GOLAM RABBANI
chapter 10|24 pages
A climate for change: A comparative analysis of climate change adaptation in rapidly urbanizing Australian and Chinese city regions
ByDARRYL LOW CHOY, CHEN WEN, AND SILVIA SERRAO-NEUMANN
chapter 11|20 pages
The evolution of coastal vulnerability assessments to support adaptive decision-making in Australia: A review
ByROBERT KAY, AILBHE TRAVERS, LUKE DALTON
chapter 12|16 pages
Adapting Australian coastal regions to climate change: A case study of South East Queensland
ByTIMOTHY F. SMITH, DARRYL LOW CHOY, DANA C. THOMSEN, SILVIA SERRAO-NEUMANN, FLORENCE CRICK, MARCELLO SANO, RUSSELL RICHARDS, BEN HARMAN, SCOTT BAUM, STEPHEN MYERS, VIGYA SHARMA, MARCUS BUSSEY, JULIE MATTHEWS, ANNE ROIKO, AND R.W. (BILL) CARTER
chapter 13|28 pages
From coping to resilience: The role of managed retreat in highly developed coastal regions of New Zealand
ByANDY REISINGER, JUDY LAWRENCE, GEORGINA HART, AND RALPH CHAPMAN
chapter 14|24 pages
A tale of two atoll nations: A comparison of risk, resilience, and adaptive response of Kiribati and the Maldives
ByCARMEN ELRICK-BARR, BRUCE C. GLAVOVIC, AND ROBERT KAY
chapter 15|20 pages
Planning for coastal change in Caribbean small islands
ByGILLIAN CAMBERS AND SHARON ROBERTS-HODGE
chapter 16|22 pages
A risk-based and participatory approach to assessing climate vulnerability and improving governance in coastal Uruguay
ByGUSTAVO J. NAGY, MÓNICA GÓMEZ-ERACHE, AND ROBERT KAY
chapter 17|38 pages
The promise of coastal management in Brazil in times of global climate change
ByMARCUS POLETTE, DIETER MUEHE, MARIO L.G. SOARES, AND BRUCE C. GLAVOVIC
chapter 18|18 pages
Toward adaptive management in coastal zones: Experience from the eastern coastline of England
ByR. KERRY TURNER AND TIZIANA LUISETTI
chapter 19|14 pages
Adaptation to change in the North Sea area: Maritime spatial planning as a new planning challenge in times of climate change
ByANDREAS KANNEN AND BEATE M.W. RATTER
chapter 20|24 pages
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation with existing coastal management for the Mediterranean coastal region
ByAILBHE TRAVERS AND CARMEN ELRICK-BARR
chapter 21|24 pages
Climate change and the coastal zone of Mozambique: Supporting decision-making for community-based adaptation
ByAILBHE TRAVERS, TIMOTEO C. FERREIRA, JESSICA TRONI, ARAME TALL
chapter 22|22 pages
Climate change and the coasts of Africa: Durban case study
ByANDREW A. MATHER, DEBRA C. ROBERTS
chapter 23|24 pages
Toward reflexive adaptation and resilient coastal communities
ByBRUCE C. GLAVOVIC, P. MICK KELLY, ROBERT KAY, AND AILBHE TRAVERS
