Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Picture a gorgeous summer day.A couple sits on a sandy beach with their small child.It is low tide and the sand seems to stretch on for a mile until it reaches the water.Soft, small waves gently lap around a few scattered swimmers as the occasional new shell is exposed for the collector taking a morning walk.The couple has gone to the beach to escape their hectic lives; to relish in the calm of the melodic sea.Now picture this: it's August 29, 2005, New Orleans.Hurricane Katrina is beating down on the coast of Louisiana.Or picture Chatham, Massachusetts, where houses are falling into the sea due to increased coastal erosion.Or picture Baytown, Texas, in 1983, when floods caused by Hurricane Alicia forced an entire community of three hundred homes to be relocated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).These are all results of sea level rise (SLR).Sea levels are rising around the globe.Whether or not one believes in climate change, historically, sea levels have fluctuated with the shifting of continental ice sheets. 1 With highly developed coastlines, the United States is going to see great economic, environmental, and human impacts as the seas take back coastal land.In The Rising Sea, Orrin H. Pilkey 2 and Rob Young, 3 discuss some of the policy and legal challenges of adapting the nation's coasts for SLR.Pilkey and Young do this by * Staff attorney at the Marine Affairs Institute.The Marine Affairs Institute is a partnership of the
Source: Ocean and coastal law journal
Author: Julia B. Wyman
Language: English
Topic: Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Subfield: Earth-Surface Processes
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2394654711