Planning for Coastal Resilience
Best Practices for Calamitous Times
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 comm…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-59726-561-4
- EAN: 9781597265614
- Produktnummer: 4407549
- Verlag: Island Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D0.0 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia. His books include Green Urbanism Down Under (Island Press, 2008) and Resilient Cities (Island Press, 2008).
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