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Adaptations of coastal cities to global warming, sea level rise, climate change and endemic hazards / Frederic R. Siegel.
LIBRA HE551 .S54 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegel, Frederic R., author.
- Series:
- SpringerBriefs in environmental science 2191-5547
- SpringerBriefs in environmental science, 2191-5547
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Port cities.
- Waterfronts.
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
- Climatic changes.
- Coastal zone management.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 86 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Arresting/controlling salt water contamination of coastal aquifers
- Structures that protect sea coast populations, assets, and GDPs: sea dikes, breakwaters, seawalls
- Coastal city flooding
- Physical care: lessening impacts from other natural hazards
- Disease protection in sea coast (and inland) cities: problems in dense populations with shantytowns/slums
- An example of coastal cities hazard exposure and economics
- Decisions, costs, funding to protect coastal cities: populations and assets (personal and municipal/national)
- Epilogue
- Appendix. List of coastal cities with a one million or more population potentially at risk from global warming, climate change events, and natural hazards.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Siegel, Frederic R. Adaptations of coastal cities to global warming, sea level rise, climate change and endemic hazards.
- ISBN:
- 9783030226688
- 3030226689
- OCLC:
- 1117278145
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