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Retreat from a rising sea : hard choices in an age of climate change / / Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey



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Autore: Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Retreat from a rising sea : hard choices in an age of climate change / / Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
Disciplina: 333.917
Soggetto topico: Coast changes
Sea level
Shore protection
Global warming
Persona (resp. second.): Pilkey-JarvisLinda
PilkeyKeith C. <1965->
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Control + Alt + Retreat -- 2. The Overflowing Ocean -- 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans -- 4 New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands -- 5. Cities on the Brink -- 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House -- 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline -- 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise -- 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees -- 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay -- 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to critical infrastructure, such as water-treatment and energy facilities, creating vast, irreversible pollution by decimating landfills and toxic-waste sites. This big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we must take now to remove vulnerable populations.The authors detail specific threats faced by Miami, New Orleans, New York, and Amsterdam. Aware of the overwhelming social, political, and economic challenges that would accompany effective action, they consider the burden to the taxpayer and the logistics of moving landmarks and infrastructure, including toxic-waste sites. They also show readers the alternative: thousands of environmental refugees, with no legitimate means to regain what they have lost. The authors conclude with effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for reforming U.S. federal coastal management policies.
Titolo autorizzato: Retreat from a rising sea  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-231-54180-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798109803321
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