Planning for Coastal Resilience: Best Practices for Calamitous Times
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In this timely book, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience. Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly new way of viewing coastal infrastructure-an approach that values smaller, decentralized kinds of energy, water and transport more suited to the serious physical conditions coastal communities will likely face. Beatley provides case studies of five U.S. coastal communities, and "resilience profiles" of six North American communities, to suggest best practices and to propose guidelines for increasing resilience in threatened communities.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Climate Change and Coastal Resilience xiI Coastal Resilience: Background and Vulnerability 1Chapter 1 Coastal Resilience: What Is It? 3Chapter 2 The Vulnerability of Coastal Communities 13II Approaches to Planning for Coastal Resilience 27Chapter 3 Coastal Resilience: Key Planning Dimensions 29Chapter 4 Barriers to Coastal Resilience 43Chapter 5 Understanding the Political Setting and Context 53Chapter 6 Principles of Coastal Resilience 59Chapter 7 Tools and Techniques for Enhancing and Strengthening Coastal Resilience 73III Best Practices in Planning for Coastal Resilience 97Chapter 8 Worcester County, Maryland 99Chapter 9 Cannon Beach and the Northwest Oregon Coast 111Chapter 10 Palm Beach County, Florida 123Chapter 11 Charleston County, South Carolina 129Chapter 12 New Orleans, Louisiana, and Resilience after Katrina 135Chapter 13 Brief Coastal Resilience Profiles 143La Plata, Maryland: Rebuilding after a Devastating Tornado 143The Villages at Loreto Bay, Baja California Sur: A Model of a New, Resilient, and Sustainable Coastal Town 146Kinston, North Carolina: Sustainable Redevelopment and Green Infrastructure 150Solara: Solar-Powered Affordable Housing in San Diego County, California 152Maui County, Hawaii: Resilient Island Paradise 154Noisette, North Charleston, South Carolina: Large-Scale Coastal Redevelopment with Resilience and Sustainability at the Core 157Conclusion: The Promise of Coastal Resilience 161Appendix I Passive Survivability: A Checklist for Action 167References 171Index 177
