Breaking News! Oakland and San Francisco climate cases removed to federal court and held there. People of the State of California v. BP P.L.C. et al., San Francisco Superior Court Case No. CGC 17-561370 People of the State of California v.…
Tag: Beaches
City of Del Mar Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Plan
City of Del Mar Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Plan The Del Mar Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Plan serves as the City of Del Mar’s long-range planning guide to address future sea-level rise and its effects on storm surge and coastal flooding and…
The Corps of Engineers and shore protection: History, projects, costs (2003)
Theodore M Hillyer, The Corps of Engineers and shore protection: History, projects, costs (2003) Excellent history of the laws and projects to 2003.
Reducing Coastal Risks on the East and Gulf Coasts – NRC
National Research Council. Reducing Coastal Risks on the East and Gulf Coasts. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2014. National Vision Needed to Achieve Comprehensive Risk Reduction Along Atlantic and Gulf Coasts WASHINGTON – A national vision for coastal risk…
Coastal Sea Level Rise Resources
Surging Seas – Flood risks with climate change on the US coast (Climate Central) Excellent site for illustrating the current and future risk of sea level rise. It is also useful for showing what lower levees of hurricane storm tides…
Witless Policy and the Barrier Islands
William J. Siffin, BUREAUCRACY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND NATURAL RESOURCES: Witless Policy and the Barrier Islands, 1 Cato Journal 291 (1981} A good, early review of the unintended consequences of the National Flood Insurance Program.
Florida’s Beaches – Caught between the ocean and a hard place
Florida is facing the same problems with global warming that face Louisiana: as the beaches try to retreat inland with ocean rise, they are stopped by armoring on developments. For Louisiana, this means the end of the wet lands. For…