Tagged: Sandy
Who Stays? Who Pays? Rebuilding New York City
Residents in flood-prone regions of New York are caught between two sometimes incompatible goals: strengthening and preserving their communities, and taking sensible steps to respond to climate and change, sea level rise, and other big issues.
Are we really stronger than the storm? A year later, what have we changed?
A stronger, more resilient NYC — a year after the flood, designing for the next disaster
A stronger, more resilient NYC — a year after the flood, designing for the next disaster
The next challenge to NYC infrastructure is likely to be heatwaves, not water, and our next mayor will do well if he adopts the lessons from Sandy, as articulated in the SIRR report.
Après le Déluge:
New York Takes on Climate Change
by Peter Lehner @ NRDC
A year after Superstorm Sandy crashed into the heart of the Northeast, two things are clear. One, climate change is here, its costs are already high, and they are likely to climb higher soon. Two, political leaders in the region have shown that there is an alternative to head-in-the-sand denialism—namely, taking forward-looking steps to reduce risk and prepare for climate change, as well as addressing many of the other threats to our air, our water and our health.
In fact, with New York City’s high population density, extensive demands for energy, water and other resources, intensive coastline development threatened by rising sea levels, and pressure to cope with, and reduce, vast waste streams, the metropolitan region has become the epicenter of the American environmental challenge.
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