Chronic Risk of Global Climate Change to Urban Coasts and Economies

 Presentations:

• John Church (CSIRO) “Past Sea Level Change and the Sea Level Budget”

• Radley Horton (Columbia/NASA GISS) “Climate Change Projections for the New York Metropolitan Region”

• Vivien Gornitz (Columbia/NASA GISS) “Sea Level Rise and Storm Hazards, New York City”

• Jose Javier Diez Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica De Madrid) “Sea Level Rise, An Alternative View”

• Rafael Bras (MIT) “Saving Venice”

• Hans-Peter Plag (UN-Reno) “Plausible Local Sea Level Scenarios in Support of Managing and mitigating the Impacts of Coastal Inundation: How Large are the Uncertainties?”

• Aurelio Mercado (UPR-Mayaguez/PR Sea Grant) “ Puerto Rico vis a vis Climate Change and a frequently asked question: What is the government doing?”

• Pier Vellinga (Wageningen University) “Adaptation of the Dutch Delta to a Changing Climate”

• Malcolm Bowman (SUNY-Stony Brook) “Storm Surge Barriers to Protect Metropolitan New York: Data and Tools”

• Klaus Jacob (LDEO/Columbia) “Climate Change and its Challenges to Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Sustainability: the New York Example”

• Virginia Burkett (USGS) “Infrastructure at risk – US Gulf Coast region”

• Francesco Bosello (FEEM/Univ. of Milan) “Economy-Wide Impacts of Climate Change: A Joint analysis for Sea Level Rise and Tourism”