Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions

This book evaluates and showcases innovative and practical global strategies for combating sea level rise from the landscape architecture profession. It explores how combining integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce flood risks, including sea level rise. Case studies from the US, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands identify structural, non-structural, and hybrid mechanisms used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. The book develops design-based typologies to combat sea level rise and provides insights for professionals involved in land use, development, and population-related activities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 316 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into innovative and practical global measures to combat sea level rise from the perspective of landscape architecture. It explores the effective combination of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms to mitigate risks associated with flood events, including sea level rise. Recognizing the global nature of this challenge, illustrative case studies from the United States, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands showcase the diverse structural, non-structural, and hybrid approaches employed to combat sea level rise and enhance flood resilience. By extracting and analyzing these alternative flood risk reduction mechanisms from each case study, the book develops and explains a set of design-based typologies aimed at combating sea level rise. These typologies can be applied to safeguard both new and existing communities, making it essential for those residing in or planning for future floodplains to strategically implement a series of integrated constructed and green infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms. This book serves as a valuable resource for academics and practitioners across various design professions, including urban designers, urban planners, architects, real estate developers, and landscape architects. By addressing sea level rise, it contributes to the development of resilient and sustainable solutions for coastal environments.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032024578