Planning for Coastal Resilience : Best Practices for Calamitous Times.
Title:
Planning for Coastal Resilience : Best Practices for Calamitous Times.
Author:
Beatley, Timothy.
ISBN:
9781610911429
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (198 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Climate Change and Coastal Resilience -- Section I: Coastal Resilience: Background and Vulnerability -- Ch. 1: Coastal Resilience: What Is It? -- Ch. 2: The Vulnerability of Coastal Communities -- Section II: Approaches to Planning for Coastal Resilience -- Ch. 3: Coastal Resilience: Key Planning Dimensions -- Ch. 4: Barriers to Coastal Resilience -- Ch. 5: Understanding the Political Setting and Context -- Ch. 6: Principles of Coastal Resilience -- Ch. 7: Tools and Techniques for Enhancing and Strengthening Coastal Resilience -- Section III: Best Practice in Planning for Coastal Resilience -- Ch. 8: Worcester County, Maryland -- Ch. 9: Cannon Beach and the Northwest Oregon Coast -- Ch. 10: Palm Beach County, Florida -- Ch. 11: Charleston County, South Carolina -- Ch. 12: New Orleans, Louisiana, and Resilience after Katrina -- Ch. 13: Brief Coastal Resilience Profiles -- La Plata, Maryland: Rebuilding after a Devastating Tornado -- The Villages at Loreto Bay, Baja California Sur: A Model of a New, Resilient, and Sustainable Coastal Town -- Kinston, North Carolina: Sustainable Redevelopment and Green Infrastructure -- Solara: Solar-Powered Affordable Housing in Sand Diego County, California -- Maui County, Hawaii: Resilient Island Paradise -- Noisette, North Charleston, South Carolina: Large-Scale Coastal Redevelopment with Resilience and Sustainability at the Core -- Conclusion: The Promise of Coastal Resilience -- Appendix I: Passive Survivability: A Checklist for Action -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
In this timely book, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience. Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly new way of viewing coastal infrastructure-an approach that values smaller, decentralized kinds of energy, water and transport more suited to the serious physical conditions coastal communities will likely face. Beatley provides case studies of five U.S. coastal communities, and "resilience profiles" of six North American communities, to suggest best practices and to propose guidelines for increasing resilience in threatened communities.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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