Sea Level Rise San Francisco
SEA LEVEL RISE: San Francisco Bay Area
MUD 692 l Kevin Kellogg l FALL 2012 l Utkarsh Kumar
The Theory:
Coastal cities need preservation and restoration, not development to tackle the issues of Sea Level Rise.
“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation, and suffering,” said John Holdren, the president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and an energy and climate expert at Harvard. “We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”
John Holdren,
The president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an energy and climate expert at Harvard University
New York Times, January 30, 2007
The coastal cities around the world are some of the most developed and rich economic resources. They have been a home to wealth and economic prosperity. Besides economic stability, coastal cities are also home to a wealth of rich resources and diverse species, habitat types and nutrients (WRI, 2000). Employment, recreation and tourism, waterborne commerce, and energy and mineral production are driving forces of population migration to these areas. In US, since 1980, costal population growth has reflected the same growth as the entire nation. The narrow coastal fringe that makes up 17 percent of the nation 's contiguous land area is home to more than half of its population. In 2003, approximately 153 million people (53 percent of the nation’s population) lived in the 673 U.S. coastal counties, an increase of 33 million people since 1980. This trend also goes on to show the increase in developer driven projects in the coastal cities with high demand for housing on the waterfront. This makes the waterfronts in many cities a prime property for development and attracts a large number of people by selling the idea of living close to, next or on the water. What this trend has done is
MUD 692 l Kevin Kellogg l FALL 2012 l Utkarsh Kumar
The Theory:
Coastal cities need preservation and restoration, not development to tackle the issues of Sea Level Rise.
“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation, and suffering,” said John Holdren, the president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and an energy and climate expert at Harvard. “We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”
John Holdren,
The president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an energy and climate expert at Harvard University
New York Times, January 30, 2007
The coastal cities around the world are some of the most developed and rich economic resources. They have been a home to wealth and economic prosperity. Besides economic stability, coastal cities are also home to a wealth of rich resources and diverse species, habitat types and nutrients (WRI, 2000). Employment, recreation and tourism, waterborne commerce, and energy and mineral production are driving forces of population migration to these areas. In US, since 1980, costal population growth has reflected the same growth as the entire nation. The narrow coastal fringe that makes up 17 percent of the nation 's contiguous land area is home to more than half of its population. In 2003, approximately 153 million people (53 percent of the nation’s population) lived in the 673 U.S. coastal counties, an increase of 33 million people since 1980. This trend also goes on to show the increase in developer driven projects in the coastal cities with high demand for housing on the waterfront. This makes the waterfronts in many cities a prime property for development and attracts a large number of people by selling the idea of living close to, next or on the water. What this trend has done is
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