Climate Change Will Impact the Seattle Department of Transportation
Author | : Wendy K. Soo Hoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wendy K. Soo Hoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Committee on Climate Change and U.S. Transportation |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008-07-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0309113067 |
While every mode of transportation in the U.S. will be affected as the climate changes, potentially the greatest impact on transportation systems will be flooding of roads, railways, transit systems, and airport runways in coastal areas because of rising sea levels and surges brought on by more intense storms, says a new report from the National Research Council. Though the impacts of climate change will vary by region, it is certain they will be widespread and costly in human and economic terms, and will require significant changes in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of transportation systems. The U.S. transportation system was designed and built for local weather and climate conditions, predicated on historical temperature and precipitation data. The report finds that climate predictions used by transportation planners and engineers may no longer be reliable, however, in the face of new weather and climate extremes. Infrastructure pushed beyond the range for which it was designed can become stressed and fail, as seen with loss of the U.S. 90 Bridge in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Author | : Seattle (Wash.). Department of Transportation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Livia Bizikova |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2015-02-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136562818 |
To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated separately both in research and in the climate negotiations. However, a growing body of literature is now being developed that points to actual and potential synergies and trade-offs between responses to climate change and sustainability. This literature has evolved in a spontaneous way with diverse approaches and no common methodology to help practitioners explicitly plan for these synergies. This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses this gap between scientific knowledge and practitioners' needs by focussing on linkages between climate change and sustainable development at the level of conceptual framework and methods. In particular, the papers address in an integrated way local development options involving both adaptation and mitigation in order to promote resilience to climate change in human and natural systems. The special issue provides policy and methodological guidelines for linking local deveopment pathways with responses to climate change, based on collaboration between local practitioners, the public and scientists.
Author | : Asian Development Bank |
Publisher | : Asian Development Bank |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9290923881 |
This publication aims to present a step-by-step methodological approach to assist project teams to incorporate climate change adaptation measures into transport sector investment projects. While the focus of the publication is on the project level, an improved understanding of climate change impacts should also be used in the design of infrastructure planning and development policies and strategies to ensure appropriate resource allocation. Though the transport sector includes roads, waterways, rails, and airborne transport, this publication focuses solely on road infrastructure.
Author | : Yonn Dierwechter |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1785279467 |
Seattle is one of the most politically progressive and economically dynamic cities in the contemporary United States. This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings. While practitioners and academics have lauded Seattle’s urban sustainability and climate action efforts for many years, the analysis here focuses especially on mounting political concerns with social equity, income polarization, and racial justice in a “high-tech” city-region already experiencing the deleterious effects of global climate change. Drawing on a framework first suggested by the Urban Climate Change Research Network, the discussion considers major research themes like mitigation and adaptation policies; Seattle’s regional, national and international participation in climate action networks; disaster risk reduction and risk assessment; and the impacts of climate change and climate policy formation on the city’s most disadvantaged populations. Climate Change and the Future of Seattle will, therefore, be of wider interest to scholars and students at all levels in urban planning, human geography, political science, urban studies, public administration, and sustainability studies.
Author | : Seattle (Wash.). Department of Transportation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Environmental impact statements |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yonn Dierwechter |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785279475 |
Seattle is one of the most politically progressive and economically dynamic cities in the contemporary United States. This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings. While practitioners and academics have lauded Seattle’s urban sustainability and climate action efforts for many years, the analysis here focuses especially on mounting political concerns with social equity, income polarization, and racial justice in a “high-tech” city-region already experiencing the deleterious effects of global climate change. Drawing on a framework first suggested by the Urban Climate Change Research Network, the discussion considers major research themes like mitigation and adaptation policies; Seattle’s regional, national and international participation in climate action networks; disaster risk reduction and risk assessment; and the impacts of climate change and climate policy formation on the city’s most disadvantaged populations. Climate Change and the Future of Seattle will, therefore, be of wider interest to scholars and students at all levels in urban planning, human geography, political science, urban studies, public administration, and sustainability studies.