climate

Adaptive City Planning Tackles the Uncertainty of Sea Level Rise

By Liza Moriconi Historically, engineers have designed cities’ infrastructure to a baseline climate. However, given the inevitability of and rapid acceleration of climate change, this baseline is shifting. “Sea levels…

Environmental

Jan 1, 2023

BUILDING RESILIENCE, RETHINKING AND RE-ENGINEERING OUR COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS WITH WATER

The fury of Hurricane Ian, which claimed more than 100 lives and caused more than $8.4 billion in damage in Florida after slamming into the state as a Category 4…

Infrastructure Water

Nov 24, 2022

Landscape with the Lone Cypress tree on a cliff by the Pacific Ocean showing resilience and strength by withstanding storms. The image depicts endurance in nature as a tourist attraction in California USA. | Coastal Resilience in the U.S.: The Importance of Short-Term Adaptation for a Sick World

Coastal Resilience in the U.S.: The Importance of Short-Term Adaptation for a Sick World

A recent comment on a LinkedIn post about a project to create man-made living, growing breakwaters off Staten Island to account for problematic coastal erosion asked ‘Why not spend the…

Water