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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"coastal cities"”.
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Multi-hazard risk assessment methodology for European coastal cities
… of multiple climate-related hazards in European coastal cities, a crucial issue given the intensifying impacts of climate change. European coastal cities are particularly vulnerable to a variety of climate-related hazards, such as sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and extreme weather events, which …
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Measuring climate adaptation : assessing the use of indicators in U.S. coastal cities
… of climate change, in recent years many U.S. cities have developed climate adaptation plans. However, they have made limited progress implementing these plans and even less progress evaluating the effectiveness of them. Indicators have the potential to help cities track the implementation and …
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Weathering the storms : new suburban typology for coastal cities through a case study on Winthrop, MA
… events around the world. As the sea level rises, coastal cities are becoming more vulnerable to storm surges and flooding. This is especially problematic in the U.S. where the population is concentrated and is on the rise along the coasts. Properties of high total value are also at risk. Various …
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On the Energy Sustainability of Active and Passive Building Integrated Technologies in the Context of a Changing Climate for Tropical Coastal Cities
… This vulnerability is amplified in compact cities where anthropogenic heat removal from the built environment further increases the temperature of the urban canyon with feedback on human comfort and energy demands. Although there has been prior work reported on mitigating energy demands due …
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Water urbanism in Lagos: A case study of Makoko community
… rapid urbanisation challenges in developing coastal cities. This study explores the growth of water urbanism in informal waterfront settlements as an ecological strategy that can be used to develop rich urbanism for coastal cities such as Lagos. Land reclamation techniques, primarily …
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Catching My Breath
… Each story takes place in different coastal cities in Maine, including Kennebunkport, Sandy Neck Beach, Old Orchard Beach, and Crescent Beach. These specific locales create a distinctive atmosphere for each story within the collection, as well as provide the places from which the …
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Aquatecture: Architectural Adaptation to Rising Sea Levels
… changing. Temperatures are rising, skies over cities are blanketed with smoke, and melting glaciers are raising sea levels at alarming rates. Although the destruction we face is already threatening the quality of life for billions around the world, it could just be the beginning. What is …
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Urban archipelago for climate change adaptation: the next phase of landmaking in Boston
Coastal cities all over the world are threatened by sea level rise caused by global climate change. Boston is one of them that desires to seek innovative sea level rise adaptation strategies. This thesis provides a new, operational strategy that changes the relationship between water and the city, …
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Sustainable Urbanism, Rising Sea Level, and Green Infrastructure: New Strategies for Central London
… adaptive urban infrastructures are needed in coastal cities to confront risks associated with rising sea level and storm water surge. This research studies flooding potentials in the greater London area, the hydrological situation of the Thames River Basin, and hybrid approaches to confronting …
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Expansão urbana do distrito de Jacumã/Conde-PB, sobre a apa de Tambaba.
… was exclusively rural, now move to the cities, Brazil has the majority of its population living in coastal cities, while that cities grew Brazilian environmental legislation has evolved, culminating in the emergence of conservation units, including APAs who are the environmental …
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Earth Observation Data-Driven Assessment of Local to Regional, Contemporary, and Emerging Coastal Environmental Security Challenges
Coastal zones are hotspots of global environmental changes. Worldwide, coastal environments face multiple, interactive stressors caused by both natural and anthropogenic impacts on climatic, oceanographic, ecological, and socio-economic processes such as sea level rise, storm surges, hurricanes, …
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Harboring chaos
… become the unknown point of last resort for many coastal communities. Harboring displaced populations during a hurricane and it's chaotic aftermath are no longer seen as a need in a coastal communities evacuation strategy. The dangerous situation this strategy poses is being amplified by an …
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Adaptation and adaptability : expectant design for resilience in coastal urbanity
… to changed circumstances. Adaptation occurs in cities when an event or fluctuation provokes a re-figuring towards new conditions or hazards. Considering current environmental and systemic changes in coastal post-industrial cities, this thesis explores adaptation and adaptability's form and …
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Memorable, Legible, and Accessible Cities: Co-Stewarding Historic Preservation and Public Transportation Agendas in Boston and Hong Kong
… I explore this alignment by analyzing how two coastal cities, Boston and Hong Kong, have accommodated transit needs alongside the cultural legacy of their built environments—resulting in positive and negative impacts on achieving sustainable development goals. Insights from Hong Kong and Boston …
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Show Me My Rights: Queer Activism in Kansas City and St. Louis, 1977-1993
… many headline-grabbing protests took place in coastal cities typically characterized as queer havens, queer activists in the Heartland worked tirelessly for liberation from oppression. Queer historians in the 1990s and early 2000s tended to advance this coastal narrative, arguing that …
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Introducing Mangrove Mitigation to the Urban Development in Mumbai
… economic capital and the most densely urbanized coastal city of India. Environmental strain caused by rapid development of the city is studied with focus on one aspect of Mumbai's environment, the mangrove ecology, which has been threatened by urbanization ever since the city began to evolve. The …
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NUMERICALLY MODELING FLOODING SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
… flooding affects many of the world’s low-lying, coastal cities today. Whether induced by prolonged periods of rainfall, storm surge, or river overtopping, these issues pose as a hazard to human life as well as a source of damage to urban infrastructure. The United States Naval Academy is one …
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Chinese economic and financial reforms : implications for foreign financial institutions
… subsidiaries and representative offices in coastal cities and Special Economic Zones. However, unlike other Australian industries which are strengthening their operations or cooperative undertaking in China, in respect of their number of operating institutions in the Chinese financial market …
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Living With Water: How Flexible Structure Types Build Resilience in a Dynamic Landscape？
Coastal cities of the United States have suffered and will suffer great loss from flood-related hazards. Governments and organizations have taken many strategies to prevent, mitigate, and recover from their impact. When the episodic hazards, however, are accompanied with chronological threat—namely …
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