A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation : Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Changing Risks of Coastal Communities -- Part I: Designing for Equitable Resilience -- Chapter 1: A Comprehensive Framework for Coastal Flood-Risk Reduction: Charting a Course Toward Resiliency -- Chapter 2: Designing for Resilience in Rich Coastal Cities (and Beyond) -- Chapter 3: For Whom Do We Account in Climate Adaptation? -- Chapter 4: Preparation, Adaptation, and Retreat in Miami Beach and Buras -- Chapter 5: Head of Bay Coastal Resilience: Adaptive Design for Jamaica Bay, New York -- Part II: Adapting Public Policy and Finance -- Chapter 6: Public Funding of Coastal Adaptation: A Review of US Public Sources--and the Case for More -- Chapter 7: Insurance and Coastal Adaptation -- Chapter 8: Environmental Impact Bonds: An Innovation in Financing Climate Adaptation -- Chapter 9: Adapting Coastal Drinking Water to Rising Seas -- Chapter 10: Take Out the Trash When You Leave: Cleaning Up Properties Abandoned to Rising Seas -- Chapter 11: Flux Zoning: From End-State Planning to Zoning for Uncertainty -- Chapter 12: Coastal Urbanism: Designing the Future Waterfront -- Contributors -- Index -- Island Press | Board of Directors.