Overview
- Discusses the identification of, solutions to, and management of threats to high population coastal cities
- Assesses mitigation of the effects of extreme weather events such as major flooding
- Addresses the high costs of safeguarding citizen and municipal assets but notes possible sources of funding
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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About the author
Dr. Frederic R. Siegel is Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University. His books Applied Geochemistry (1974), Geoquimica Aplicada (1991), Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards in Development Planning (1996), Environmental Geochemistry of Potentially Toxic Metals (2001/2002), Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning (2008), Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations (2015), Mitigation of dangers from Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards (2016), and Cities and Mega-Cities (2018) reflect Dr. Siegel’s cumulative teaching and research experience in theoretical and applied exploration and environmental geochemistry, and his work to alleviate or eliminate environmental problems related to physical, social, chemical, and economic conditions associated with planned development projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptations of Coastal Cities to Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change and Endemic Hazards
Authors: Frederic R. Siegel
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22669-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22668-8Published: 25 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22669-5Published: 12 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 86
Topics: Coastal Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change, Natural Hazards, Urban Economics