Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities: Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation

by Patrick Field, Lawrence E. Susskind, Danya Lee Rumore, et al.

Book Overview

This volume reports on the research completed as part of the multi-year New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP), a partnership between the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the US Government's National Estuarine Research Reserve System, four New England coastal towns, and the Consensus Building Institute. The first half of the book offers a series of chapters that explain how and why climate adaptation requires collective rather than individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783084898
• ISBN13: 9781783084890
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"