Sydney, Australia. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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Recent catastrophic flood events in New South Wales should sound warnings for communities across the country, water engineers say…
Australia Not Prepared For Effects Of Climate Change, ABC News (09-18-2014)
More than three-quarters of the population lives near the coast but Australia’s love affair with the beach will come at a future cost. A report on the effects of climate change on Australia’s infrastructure calls coastal flooding the sleeping giant of risk to future prosperity…
Impact Of Coastal Erosion in Australia, CoastalWatch (12-10-2012)
Future Flood Losses in Major Coastal Cities: Costly Projections, Science Daily (08-19-2013)
Climate change combined with rapid population increases, economic growth and land subsidence could lead to a more than nine-fold increase in the global risk of floods in large port cities between now and 2050…
Too Big to Flood? Megacities Face Future of Major Storm Risk, Yale e 360 (Uploaded 0n 01-13-2013)
As economic activity and populations continue to expand in coastal urban areas, particularly in Asia, hundreds of trillions of dollars of infrastructure, industrial and office buildings, and homes are increasingly at risk from intensifying storms and rising sea levels…
