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Sink Or Swim: In Search Of A Model For Coastal City Climate Resilience, Sarah Adams-Schoen
Sink Or Swim: In Search Of A Model For Coastal City Climate Resilience, Sarah Adams-Schoen
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New York City, like other major cities around the world, has acknowledged the problem of climate change, undertaken a comprehensive risk assessment, created a suite of adaptation and mitigation planning initiatives, and begun to implement policies to decrease the city’s contribution to the problem and to make the city less vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This detailed analysis of the city’s climate change resilience initiatives concludes that, although many of the city’s initiatives provide a model for other coastal communities, the initiatives likely still fall short of what is required to sufficiently moderate harm from dangerous interference with …