Climate Change and the Coast: Building Resilient Communities

By Robert Kay and kay-robert-kay-robert

Telling the stories of real-world communities in diverse coastal settings, this book draws upon the latest research findings from a wide range of disciplines. Case studies are drawn from all around the world and from countries with varying levels of development including America's Gulf of Mexico coast, Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, New Zealand, The Maldives, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Vietnam. It examines what has succeeded and what has failed around the world, where there are opportunities to be grasped and pitfalls to be avoided.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415464870
• ISBN13: 9780415464871
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 596 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 8.9"