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Planning for Coastal Resilience - Best Practices for Calamitous Times (Paperback, 2nd None Ed.)
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Planning for Coastal Resilience - Best Practices for Calamitous Times (Paperback, 2nd None Ed.)
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Why and how coastal regions should prepare for climatic
catastrophes. Climate 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 "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. The work described in this book was
commissioned and supported by the Coastal Services Center of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Headquartered in
Charleston, South Carolina, its mission is to foster and sustain
the environmental and economic well-being of the nation's coasts by
linking people, information, and technology.
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