Tips for a superior coastal natural infrastructure project

Shore & Beach ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-52
Author(s):  
Shannon Cunniff ◽  
Douglas Janiec ◽  
Alek Modjeski ◽  
Jennifer Mattei
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Award Committee ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
Coastal Resilience ◽  
Shoreline Restoration

ASBPA announced the winners of the 2020 Best Restored Shores (BRS) award on 14 September 2020. This award has three goals: First, to boost recognition of the importance of shoreline restoration for building coastal resilience to climate change; second, to acknowledge the teams that put the hard work necessary to complete a project that delivers; and, third, to advance others’ capabilities and success. In this article, winners of the BRS award and the BRS Award Committee share their thoughts based on their project experience. Follow this advice and you too can implement a great coastal natural infrastructure solution and, perhaps, find your team on the receiving end of this award.

Marsh Migration, Climate Change, and Coastal Resilience: Human Dimensions Considerations for a Fair Path Forward

Wetlands ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1751-1764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Van Dolah ◽  
Christine D. Miller Hesed ◽  
Michael J. Paolisso
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Coastal Resilience

Making Infrastructure ‘Visible’ in Environmental Law: The Belt and Road Initiative and Climate Change Friction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Sanja Bogojević ◽  
Mimi Zou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Infrastructure is often viewed through global and promotional lenses, particularly its role in creating market connectivity. However, infrastructure is heavily dependent on and constitutive of local spaces, where ‘frictions’, or disputes, emerge. Drawing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a case study, we examine in detail two cases of BRI-related climate change litigation – one in Pakistan, and one in Kenya – that shed light on the frictions arising from what is deemed the most significant transnational infrastructure project of our time. In doing so, this study demonstrates how infrastructure can be made more visible in environmental law and how environmental law itself provides an important mechanism for stabilizing friction in the places where infrastructure is located.

scholarly journals Guest Editorial: Climate Displacement in the Pacific – Special Forum

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bridget Lewis ◽  
Rowena Maguire ◽  
MD Saiful Karim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Migration Pathways

<em>This issue of the QUT Law Review features a collection of papers on the topic of climate displacement in the Pacific. The collection arose out of a symposium held at QUT in May 2014 and co-hosted by the Faculty of Law and Friends of the Earth. The focus of the symposium was on the potential of pre-emptive migration pathways to address the challenges of climate change-related displacement in the Asia-Pacific region. The guest editors wish to thank Wendy Flannery of Friends of the Earth (Brisbane) for her hard work in organising the symposium and her ongoing commitment to this serious issue.</em>

scholarly journals Quantitative Coastal Resilience Assessment Framework under Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Wu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Coastal Hazards ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Coastal Resilience ◽  
Resilience Assessment

Accompanied by increasing population growth and urban sprawl, most coastal cities are unprecedentedly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts, such as sea level rise, increasing extreme storm events, and coastal flooding. Coastal resilience and sustainable development are antidotes to vulnerability; they aim to enhance the adaptive capability of absorbing disturbances and resisting uncertainty. This study explores building a quantitative assessment framework to measure resilience and provide an objective and comparable method to understand the strengths and weaknesses in a given region. The proposed 25 resilience indicators incorporate the aspects of essential livelihood protection, infrastructure and natural resource maintenance, emergency facilities and institutions, floodplain management regulations, and adaptive planning process. Each indicator is assigned the resilience quality that includes robustness, resourcefulness, redundancy, and rapidity. The aggregated resilience quality scoring reflects the systematic performance of the city to cope with the coastal hazards. The innovative part of this framework is combining hazard mitigation measures, climate adaptation strategies, and sustainable development goals together to achieve a comprehensive assessment method. In the case of New Haven, the resilience assessment is taken as a practical monitoring tool and decision-making support.

scholarly journals COASTAL RESILIENCE IN THE US

2020 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Jane M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Physical Process ◽  
Probabilistic Modeling ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Coastal Hazards ◽  
Modeling Methods ◽  
Coastal Systems ◽  
The Us ◽  
Coastal Resilience ◽  
Flexible Adaptation

Resilience is the capacity to anticipate and plan for disturbances, resist damages and/or absorb impacts, rapidly recover afterwards, and adapt to stressors, changing conditions and constraints. Coastal hazards in the US, including the compounding of surge, rainfall, waves, climate change, and clustered events, create significate challenges to designing and maintaining resilient coastal systems. The range of design solutions include natural and nature-based, non-structural, and structural measures together with flexible adaptation strategies. Moving forward, the community requires: robust physical process and probabilistic modeling methods, advanced sensing techniques, broad collaboration, and a commitment to innovation and adaption.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/fQvAXEj0Ar0

Climate Change and Coastal Vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Li ◽  
Sathya Gopalakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Coastal Resilience ◽  
Normative Models

The convergence of geophysical and economic forces that continuously influence environmental quality in the coastal zone presents a grand challenge for resource and environmental economists. To inform climate adaptation policy and identify pathways to sustainability, economists must draw from different lines of inquiry, including nonmarket valuation, quasi-experimental analyses, common-pool resource theory, and spatial-dynamic modeling of coupled coastal-economic systems. Theoretical and empirical contributions in valuing coastal amenities and risks help examine the economic impact of climate change on coastal communities and provide a key input to inform policy analysis. Co-evolution of community demographics, adaptation decisions, and the physical coastline can result in unintended consequences, like climate-induced migration, that impacts community composition after natural disasters. Positive and normative models of coupled coastline systems conceptualize the feedbacks between physical coastline dynamics and local community decisions as a dynamic geoeconomic resource management problem. There is a pressing need for interdisciplinary research across natural and social sciences to better understand climate adaptation and coastal resilience.

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