Pilkey / Pilkey-Jarvis Retreat from a Rising Sea

Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54180-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

This big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we need to take now to remove vulnerable populations. The authors detail effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for changing U.S. federal coastal-management policies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pilkey, Orrin H.

Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda

Pilkey, Keith C.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Deltas, Flussmündungen, Küstenregionen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by the Santa Aguila Foundation
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

Über Autor(innen)

Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, at Duke University. His books include A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands and Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future.

Linda Pilkey-Jarvis is a geologist at the Washington State Department of Ecology, where she helps manage the state's oil-spills program. She is the coauthor, with Orrin H. Pilkey, of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future.

Keith C. Pilkey is an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration. He has an undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University and a juris doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law. He is coauthor, with Orrin H. Pilkey, of Global Climate Change: A Primer.