What are these cities doing to prepare for Sea Level Rise?
San Diego has been meeting with its local universities to address sea level rise as it develops along the coast, even though some sea level rise data is uncertain. Beaches are crucial to San Diego, both economically and for the cities entire sense of itself. Seattle’s shoreline program is also examining sea level rise. San Francisco has been incorporating sea level rise into plans for redevelopment in areas such as Hunters Point and Treasure Island. But the bigger challenge will be for areas already built that may be underwater in 80 years. We may need to start restricting what types of activities occur on the ground floor of buildings. NYC, which has a lot of low lying areas in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, has an important report on sea level rise coming out in December, so stay tuned! Vancouver is concerned that there is too much focus on adapting and dealing with the issue of sea level rise when we should still be combating climate change not resigning ourselves to it. Vancouver’s
