SeaCities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Re-Building Coastal Cities: 20 Tactics to Take Advantage of Sea-Level Rise

   • Joerg Baumeister

   Pages 1-18

3. Design Strategies for Coastal Adaptation Urban Speculation in Palm Beach, Gold Coast—Australia

   • Cecilia Bischeri

   Pages 19-38

4. When It’s Time to Let Go: Re-Imagining Coastal Urban Living in the Face of Rising Seas

   • Elnaz Torabi, Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes

   Pages 39-58

5. Lo-TEK: Underwater and Intertidal Nature-Based Technologies

   • Julia Watson, Despina Linaraki, Avery Robertson

   Pages 59-105

6. Exploiting Sediment- and Morpho-Dynamics in Coastal Adaptation Strategies to Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

   • Thang Viet Nguyen, Kelly Shannon, Bruno De Meulder

   Pages 107-132

7. Water as Leverage: Design Studies for Khulna, Chennai and Semarang

   • Anne Loes Nillesen, Mona zum Felde, Eva Pfannes, Han Meyer, Olv Klijn

   Pages 133-169

8. Some Medical Issues Related to Human-Water Interaction: A Brief Introduction

   • Eugen Bogdan Petcu

   Pages 171-190

9. The Relation Between Coastal Flood Risk and Ecosystem Services Affecting Coastal Tourism: A Review of Recent Assessments

   • Carlotta Quagliolo, Alessandro Pezzoli, Elena Comino, Marco Bagliani

   Pages 191-216

10. Flood Pulse Design Principles—A Time-Based Approach to Urban Flooding

    • Ioana Corina Giurgiu

    Pages 217-251

11. A Comparison Between Alternative Relocation Options for the Pacific Islands Based on a Human-Centred Approach

    • Despina Linaraki

    Pages 253-269

12. Modelling of SeaCities: Why, What and How to Model

    • Edoardo Bertone, Oz Sahin

    Pages 271-294

13. Overlapping Worlds: An Indigenous Jurisprudential Approach to SeaCities

    • C. F. Black

    Pages 295-304

This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards. It also offers opportunities for cities to explore urban extensions such as marine estates, aquatic food production systems, new sea related industries, maritime transport developments, new oceanic tourist attractions, and the designation of additional coastal ecological zones. The urban interface between Sea and Cities generates, therefore, both burning issues and valuable opportunities and raises the question of whether it is possible to solve the former by exploiting the latter?

• Sea level rise
• Coastal cities
• Coastal ecological zones
• Water hazards
• Urban extensions
• Marine estates
• Maritime transport
• Aquatic food production
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• climate change
• data-driven science, modeling and theory building

• Gold Coast Campus, Cities Research Institute, Southport, Australia

  Joerg Baumeister, Edoardo Bertone, Paul Burton

Prof. Joerg Baumeister was the previous Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre, UWA, and has attracted more than $2 M in industry grants in the last three years for multi-disciplinary projects with government institutions in WA, e.g. about “Perth Water” and “Shoreline development” which have been published in books, government reports and journal articles.

Prof. Paul Burton has a long-standing interest in the theory and practice of public policy-making, with a special interest in planning and urban policy. He is currently exploring the emergence of a national urban policy in Australia and the translation of urban policy ideas from elsewhere – such as the UK’s City Deals approach – to Australian settings. 

Dr. Edoardo Bertone is a Researcher with a civil engineering background and a current focus on data-driven modelling, Bayesian Network and System Dynamics modelling applied to the water resources management, water-energy nexus, environmental healthand climate change adaptation fields. 

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