A New Coast: Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas by Peterson, Jeffrey

A New Coast: Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642830125)

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A New Coast: Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas by Peterson, Jeffrey

A New Coast: Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas

$50.00
A New Coast: Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas by Peterson, Jeffrey

A New Coast: Strategies for Responding to Devastating Storms and Rising Seas

$50.00
Format: Paperback
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"This is a timely book... It] should be mandatory reading..." -- Minnesota Star Tribune

More severe storms and rising seas will inexorably push the American coastline inland with profound impact on communities, infrastructure, and natural systems. In A New Coast, Jeffrey Peterson draws a comprehensive picture of how storms and rising seas will change the coast. Peterson offers a clear-eyed assessment of how governments can work with the private sector and citizens to be better prepared for the coming coastal inundation.

Drawing on four decades of experience at the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Senate, Peterson presents the science behind predictions for coastal impacts. He explains how current policies fall short of what is needed to effectively prepare for these changes and how the Trump Administration has significantly weakened these efforts. While describing how and why the current policies exist, he builds a strong case for a bold, new approach, tackling difficult topics including: how to revise flood insurance and disaster assistance programs; when to step back from the coast rather than build protection structures; how to steer new development away from at-risk areas; and how to finance the transition to a new coast. Key challenges, including how to protect critical infrastructure, ecosystems, and disadvantaged populations, are examined. Ultimately, Peterson offers hope in the form of a framework of new national policies and programs to support local and state governments. He calls for engagement from the private sector and local and national leaders in a "campaign for a new coast."

A New Coast is a compelling assessment of the dramatic changes that are coming to America's coast. Peterson offers insights and strategies for policymakers, planners, and business leaders preparing for the intensifying impacts of climate change along the coast.

Author: Jeffrey Peterson
ISBN-10: 1642830127
ISBN-13: 9781642830125
Publisher: Island Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 1.00d

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Choice 05/01/2020
By Jeffrey Peterson
By Jeffrey Peterson
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Jeffrey Peterson has 40 years of experience in environmental policy development and program management, particularly focused on water issues. Most recently he was Senior Advisor in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water responsible for climate change policy. In that capacity he co-chaired the EPA Sea Level Rise Workgroup and was a member of the Federal Interagency Sea Level Rise Workgroup. He also worked for almost four years at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) during the first Obama term. At CEQ, he co-chaired the Interagency Water Resources and Climate Change Workgroup and authored the first national plan addressing water resources management and climate change. Returning to EPA in 2012, he chaired the National Water Program Climate Change Workgroup and served for five years as the Federal co-chair of the Climate Change and Water Workgroup of the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI). Before joining the EPA in 1995, he worked for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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