A New Coast : Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: A Warming Climate Drives Coastal Storms and Rising Seas -- 1. Coastal Storms, Coastal Nightmare -- 2. Sea Level Rise Projections: Trending Upward -- 3. Measuring a Shifting Coast -- Part I: Epilogue -- Part II: Storms and Rising Seas Disrupt the American Coast -- 4. Scale and Cost of the Coming Coastal Inundation -- 5. Coastal Storm and Sea Level Rise Risks to Critical Infrastructure -- 6. Coastal Ecosystems Facing Inundation: Wetlands and Beaches -- 7. Private Sector Losses as Seas Rise: Tourism, Fishing, and Energy -- Part II: Epilogue -- Part III: A Nation Unprepared for Coastal Storms and Rising Seas -- 8. The Politics of Coastal Storms and Rising Seas -- 9. National Flood Insurance Program: Coastal Misdirection -- 10. Coastal Disaster Planning: Preparing for the Wrong Hazards -- 11. Coastal Management Programs: Overcommitted and Underfunded -- 12. National Planning for Climate Change: An Answer to Coastal Inundation? -- Part III: Epilogue -- Part IV: States, Communities, and Buisnesses Cope with Storms and Rising Seas -- 13. Novel Challenges of Storms and Rising Seas -- 14. State and Community Choices in Preparing for a Changing Coast -- 15. Relocation: Often the Inevitable Choice -- 16. Social and Psychological Dimensions of Coastal Storms and Rising Seas -- 17. Business Community Response to Coastal Risks -- Part IV: Epilogue -- Part V: Campaign for a New Coast -- 18. Framework for a National Storm and Sea Level Rise Program -- 19. Funding Coastal Storm and Sea Level Rise Preparedness -- 20. Campaign for a New Coast -- Part V: Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Notes -- Index -- IP Board of Directors.

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