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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
mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including
sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue,
illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea,
Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands
identify the structural (engineered), non-structural
(nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea
level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood
risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case
study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to
combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new
and existing communities. It is important for those located within
the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and
those responsible for land use, developmental, and
population-related activities within these areas to strategically
implement a series of integrated constructed and green
infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately
protect threatened areas. As a result, this book is beneficial to
both academics and practitioners related to multiple design
professions such as urban designers, urban planners, architects,
real estate developers, and landscape architects.
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
mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including
sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue,
illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea,
Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands
identify the structural (engineered), non-structural
(nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea
level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood
risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case
study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to
combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new
and existing communities. It is important for those located within
the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and
those responsible for land use, developmental, and
population-related activities within these areas to strategically
implement a series of integrated constructed and green
infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately
protect threatened areas. As a result, this book is beneficial to
both academics and practitioners related to multiple design
professions such as urban designers, urban planners, architects,
real estate developers, and landscape architects.
Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change is a
guide to successfully integrating science into urban, regional, and
coastal planning activities to build truly sustainable communities
that can withstand climate change. It calls for a shift in academic
researchers' traditional thinking by working across disciplines to
solve complex societal and environmental problems, focusing on the
real-world human impacts of climate change, and providing an
overview of how science can be used to advocate for institutional
change. Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change
appeals to a wide variety of audiences, including university
administrators looking to create and sustain interdisciplinary
research groups, community and state officials, non-profit and
community advocates, and community organizers seeking guidance for
generating and growing meaningful, productive relationships with
university researchers to support change in their communities.
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