scholarly journals Resilietn Coupling: The Systems Of Coastally Dependent Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Saverio Knight Bortoluzzi ◽  
Arthur Wrigglesworth
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Coastal Defence ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Us Army ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Brute Force Approach

As climate change becomes a more prevalent reality, rising sea levels are increasingly a threat to cities and communities in coastal regions. In light of this it is important to consider architecture’s role in the strategizing of defences and resilience. The major issue with traditionally implemented coastal defence programs, such as those considered by the US Army Corp of Engineers, is their brute force approach is repressively one dimensional, undermining the diverse, and complex realities of any community. Orienting itself in the diverse and complex communities of Atlantic Canada, this thesis operates in the face of these challenges and shortfalls. Instead a coupling of systems, activities and events in these coastal communities can make possible an architecture that accommodates, and makes visible, the realities of its changing environs at a multitude of scales, allowing the continued success of human settlement.

scholarly journals Resilietn Coupling: The Systems Of Coastally Dependent Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Saverio Knight Bortoluzzi ◽  
Arthur Wrigglesworth
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Coastal Defence ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Us Army ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Brute Force Approach

As climate change becomes a more prevalent reality, rising sea levels are increasingly a threat to cities and communities in coastal regions. In light of this it is important to consider architecture’s role in the strategizing of defences and resilience. The major issue with traditionally implemented coastal defence programs, such as those considered by the US Army Corp of Engineers, is their brute force approach is repressively one dimensional, undermining the diverse, and complex realities of any community. Orienting itself in the diverse and complex communities of Atlantic Canada, this thesis operates in the face of these challenges and shortfalls. Instead a coupling of systems, activities and events in these coastal communities can make possible an architecture that accommodates, and makes visible, the realities of its changing environs at a multitude of scales, allowing the continued success of human settlement.

scholarly journals The Archive: Digital Art and an Unsustainable Future

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tallulah Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

This short story, “The Archive”, grew out of the eco-critical research I underwent during my postgraduate degree at Goldsmiths, University of London. In recent years, literary studies have become increasingly invested in environmentalism. The damaging consequences of human endeavour are now widely regarded within environmentalist and scientific communities, and by environmental literary theory or “ecocriticism”, as a shift from the Holocene (the geological epoch that provided the appropriate conditions for mammals to thrive), to the “Anthropocene” (the epoch in which human activity has become the dominant driving force of climatic change). The ecological implications of the Anthropocene prompt questions regarding human enterprise and responsibility; fuelling dystopian or apocalyptic end of the world narratives and anxieties towards technology, capitalism and post-humanism. This short piece explores the current problems facing climate change activists, namely the inconsistencies between the scientific community’s attitude towards ecological degradation and popular culture’s. Slajov Zizek suggests that public denial and the disassociation from environmental disaster is not caused by a lack of scientific knowledge, but because we as individuals fail to corroborate what we already know about climate change with our sensory experience of the everyday: ‘We know it, but we cannot make ourselves believe in what we know’. The Archive questions this pervasive delusion, one that denies climate change even in the face of dwindling resources, increasing natural disaster and rising sea levels. We as a society consume natural resources excessively, without any regard for the consequences.  My work draws attention to the suicidal nature of this desire, and encourages its readers to take responsibility for their actions, for the sake of humanity’s survival.

scholarly journals Conservation Choices in the Face of Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study on Marsh Migration from Phippsburg, Maine

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahan T. M. Dissanayake ◽  
Meagan K. Hennessey
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Land Conservation ◽  
Simulation Data ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Decision Method ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Knapsack Algorithm

We analyze the benefits of incorporating climate change into land conservation decisions using wetland migration under rising sea-levels as a case study. We use a simple and inexpensive decision method, a knapsack algorithm implemented in Excel, with (1) simulation data to show that ignoring sea-level rise predictions lead to suboptimal outcomes, and (2) an application to land conservation in Phippsburg, Maine to show the real-world applicability. The simulation shows an 11-percent to almost 30-percent gain in increased benefits when accounting for sea-level rise. The results highlight that it is possible to, and important to, incorporate sea-level rise into conservation planning.

scholarly journals Intra- and interspecific facilitation in mangroves may increase resilience to climate change threats

2010 ◽  
Vol 365 (1549) ◽  
pp. 2127-2135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Huxham ◽  
Marappullige P. Kumara ◽  
Loku P. Jayatissa ◽  
Ken W. Krauss ◽  
James Kairo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Seedling Survival ◽  
Avicennia Marina ◽  
Total Biomass ◽  
Mangrove Species ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Interspecific Facilitation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

Mangroves are intertidal ecosystems that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. At the low tidal limits of their range, they face swamping by rising sea levels; at the high tidal limits, they face increasing stress from desiccation and high salinity. Facilitation theory may help guide mangrove management and restoration in the face of these threats by suggesting how and when positive intra- and interspecific effects may occur: such effects are predicted in stressed environments such as the intertidal, but have yet to be shown among mangroves. Here, we report the results of a series of experiments at low and high tidal sites examining the effects of mangrove density and species mix on seedling survival and recruitment, and on the ability of mangroves to trap sediment and cause surface elevation change. Increasing density significantly increased the survival of seedlings of two different species at both high and low tidal sites, and enhanced sediment accretion and elevation at the low tidal site. Including Avicennia marina in species mixes enhanced total biomass at a degraded high tidal site. Increasing biomass led to changed microenvironments that allowed the recruitment and survival of different mangrove species, particularly Ceriops tagal .

scholarly journals Ageing in Place in Disaster Prone Rural Coastal Communities: A Case Study of Tai O Village in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4618
Author(s):  
Crystal Kwan ◽  
Ho Chung Tam
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Critical Dimension ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Ageing In Place ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

Rural coastal communities face unique disaster risks that will impact interventions throughout the disaster risk reduction (DRR) cycle (mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery). At the same time, these communities are experiencing an ageing population. As climate change contributes to rising sea levels and an increase in the intensity and frequency of climate-related disasters, older populations living in rural coastal communities face heightened risks. This is a qualitative case study examining the ageing in place (AIP) experiences of older people living in a disaster-prone rural coastal community in Hong Kong—Tai O Village. Findings highlight that: (i) a critical dimension of AIP is their ability to sustain and continue their work, which played a multidimensional role, (ii) local community-based organizations play an instrumental role in providing social support in a disaster context, (iii) more support and resources for mitigation activities are needed, and (iv) while supports exist for AIP and in a disaster situation, the older residents may not utilize such supports. In addition to informing age-friendly DRR programmes and research, these findings inform AIP practices, policies, and research relevant to rural coastal communities.

The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly McKisson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Actual Process ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

Abstract This article focuses on figures of subsidence in Jesmyn Ward’s novels of Bois Sauvage. Subsidence not only describes an actual process of sinking land in the US Gulf Coast bioregion but also refigures how those who study climate change can understand and address its material effects. A focus on subsidence makes visible the sometimes-invisible infrastructure of the ground, and analysis scaled to the figure of subsidence forces a reorientation of vision—away from rising sea levels and toward the destabilizing loss of land. From this perspective, Ward’s fiction identifies histories of colonial engineering, extraction, and displacement as key ecological dangers. Unsettling national narratives of the Gulf Coast, Ward’s subsident figurations connect issues of environmental emergency to structures of environmental racism, which unevenly enhance the precarity of certain communities by diminishing the ecological infrastructures of their lands. This article argues that literary fiction can produce new understandings of situated environmental challenges and can pose particular obligations for environmental justice.

Impact of the Duration of Coastal Flooding on Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
pp. 1087724X2091591
Author(s):  
David A. Pezza ◽  
John M. White
Keyword(s):  
Threshold Level ◽  
Coastal Flooding ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Exceedance Probability ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Flood Duration ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
The City

Coastal communities are experiencing a gradual increase in flooding. Studies focus on the extent and depth of how coastal flooding will change as sea levels rise and impacts on infrastructure needed for risk assessments. However, there is limited information on how the duration of coastal flooding will change; specifically, in a format needed to support risk assessments. Therefore, the objective of this article is to highlight the need for annual exceedance probability curves by examining potential impacts on infrastructure in the city of Norfolk, Virginia. The analysis translates tide data to simulate stationarity and combines it with increments of rising sea levels to represent future tide elevations. The authors use a Poisson probability distribution to calculate flood duration exceedance levels for a specified threshold level and estimate how durations and probabilities could change over time. The article concludes with an assessment of how increasing flood durations can impact infrastructure systems.

scholarly journals Economic Effects of Seawater Intrusion on Life of Coastal Communities in Sindh Region of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 446-454
Author(s):  
Shoaib Ahmed Jagirani ◽  
Subhash Guriro ◽  
Muhammad Kamil Lakho
Keyword(s):  
Seawater Intrusion ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Coastal Belt ◽  
Sindh Province ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Multistage Sampling

Recently rising sea levels and a decrease of Indus water into the delta have resulted in high seawater intrusion at the coastal shores of Sindh. Seawater intrusion has severely affected the livelihood sources of local people. Therefore, this study is conducted with an aim to measure the economic effects of seawater intrusion on the lives of the local population in the deltaic coasts of the Sindh region in Pakistan. This is a quantitative study conducted through a survey questionnaire in the coastal belt of Badin and Thatta districts of Sindh province, Pakistan. A total of 200 participants were recruited in the study through multistage sampling. Results show a significant impact of seawater intrusion on the economic conditions of coastal communities in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Adverse effects of seawater intrusion can be seen in the shape of a decrease in cultivated land, low agricultural production, decreasing livestock production and fishing quantity.

scholarly journals Science in Service of our Communities

Oceanography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Behl ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Coastal Erosion ◽  
Saltwater Intrusion ◽  
West African ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Coastal Livelihoods

In the Golden Isles of Georgia, the Gullah art of braiding sweetgrass into baskets can be traced back over 400 years to its West African roots. This skill is passed on from generation to generation, preserving the oral history, sovereignty, and culture of the Gullah people. Local and indigenous coastal communities, like the Gullah-Geechee, have a deep connection with their natural environment as they depend on forests, fisheries, and wildlife resources for their livelihood and culture. These frontline communities are also facing a complex web of challenges that include rising sea levels, coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, encroaching development and increasing property taxes, and loss of fisheries and other coastal livelihoods. As communities develop strategies to address these complex challenges, they need access to place-based research and education that is unique to their people, culture, and ecology.

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