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Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure-shed: process, approach, tools, and strategies |
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| Authors: | Cynthia Rosenzweig William D. Solecki Reginald Blake Malcolm Bowman Craig Faris Vivien Gornitz Radley Horton Klaus Jacob Alice LeBlanc Robin Leichenko Megan Linkin David Major Megan O��Grady Lesley Patrick Edna Sussman Gary Yohe Rae Zimmerman |
| Affiliation: | 1. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA 2. Hunter College of City University of New York, New York, NY, USA 3. City University of New York, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, USA 4. State University of New York, Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA 5. Accenture, Washington, D.C., USA 6. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 7. Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA 8. Swiss Reinsurance America Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA 9. Sussman ADR, LLC, New York, NY, USA 10. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA 11. New York University, New York, NY, USA |
| Abstract: | While current rates of sea level rise and associated coastal flooding in the New York City region appear to be manageable by stakeholders responsible for communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure, projections for sea level rise and associated flooding in the future, especially those associated with rapid icemelt of the Greenland and West Antarctic Icesheets, may be outside the range of current capacity because extreme events might cause flooding beyond today??s planning and preparedness regimes. This paper describes the comprehensive process, approach, and tools for adaptation developed by the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) in conjunction with the region??s stakeholders who manage its critical infrastructure, much of which lies near the coast. It presents the adaptation framework and the sea-level rise and storm projections related to coastal risks developed through the stakeholder process. Climate change adaptation planning in New York City is characterized by a multi-jurisdictional stakeholder?Cscientist process, state-of-the-art scientific projections and mapping, and development of adaptation strategies based on a risk-management approach. |
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