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Retreat from a Rising Sea
Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
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509 g
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236x159x25 mm
Beschreibung:
Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, and Keith C. Pilkey
Foreword, by the Santa Aguila FoundationPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Control + Alt + Retreat2. The Overflowing Ocean3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans4. New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands5. Cities on the Brink6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees10. Deny, Debate, and Delay11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the FutureBibliographyIndex
With its 28-foot storm surge and 174 mph winds, 2005's Hurricane Katrina was responsible for nearly 2,000 deaths and more than $100 billion in damage. The event was only a preview of what will soon hit coastal communities as climate change increases the power of storms that can lay waste to critical infrastructure, such as water-treatment and energy facilities, and create 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 need to take now to remove vulnerable populations.