Calibrating Coastal Resilience [Hardcover]

Contents

Preface

Author biography

Contributors

1. Embracing an Ecological Approach to Urban Design in the Anthropocene Era: Invaluable Lessons from History on the Advantages of Understanding, Evaluating, and Coexisting Harmoniously with Nature
   Sonia Ch?o and Gustavo S?nchez Hugalde
2. Multi-faceted Challenges and Socio-Economic Considerations
   Sonia Ch?o with contributions by Gustavo S?nchez Hugalde
3. Addressing the Nature-Culture Dichotomy through Adaptive City Siting and Design in Response to the Emerging Climate Predicament
   Sonia Ch?o with contributions by Gustavo S?nchez Hugalde and Madeleine Li
4. Manifesting the Urban Terroir: introducing a hyper-local & holistic framework for a climate-challenged era
   Sonia Ch?o with contributions by Gustavo S?nchez Hugalde
5. Re-mapping our Future through a Novel Approach: The Urban Terroir Principles, Priorities, Methods, and Tools
   Sonia Ch?o
6. Calibrating Coastal Urban Vulnerabilities and Resilience through Modeling
   Sonia Ch?o and Benjamin Ghansah
7. The 'SSBV Synoptic Survey': Precedents, Climate-Framework, Associated Protocols, and Contributions to the 'Storm Surge Building Vulnerability Model' Sonia Ch?o, Benjamin Ghansah, and Timothy Norris
8. Development of the Storm Surge Building Vulnerability Model (SSBV): A Hyper-local Flood Vulnerability Model for Coastal Regions
   Sonia Ch?o and Benjamin Ghansah
9. The Storm Surge Building Vulnerability Model: Assessing CoastallÃ'