[PDF.45hy] Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

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 | #501283 in Books |  imusti |  2016-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x1.00 x6.30l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

 | University Press Group Ltd

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| All the basics of the sea rise challenge.|By Customer|This is an excellent basic primer on the consequences of climate driven sea level rise for human coastal communities. The authors critique the denialism, short term thinking, and outright irresponsibility that pervades coastal development in the USA. And they have facts on their side: there is a "let the buyer beware" menta| |Retreat from a Rising Sea is a landmark work long overdue. The book offers deep analysis, case histories, and names villains of denial. It offers visions, solutions, and historic examples of how coastal cities and communities have dealt in the past and

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. Th...

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