It was front-page news recently in
The New York Times: “Rising Sea Levels Seen as Threat to Coastal U.S.” The
Times was reporting on new research released in the
Environmental Research Letters revealing (anew) the vulnerability of coastal areas. Other research citied in the article comes from NOAA. How timely then that Andrew Weaver of the School of Earth and Ocean Science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia is the opening keynote speaker for APA’s 2012 National Planning Conference. Weaver is the co-author of the influential
“Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis” and author of the 2008 book
Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World (Viking Canada). Don’t miss Weaver’s energetic and articulate
discussion on the science of climate change. The opening keynote will be just one of the discussions of extreme weather and climate change at the conference. The Delta Urbanism Symposium at the conference includes a number of sessions on the topic. The opening session of the symposium will highlight a new book from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
Resilient Coastal City Regions: Planning for Climate Change in the United States and Australia. To hear about the research on responses to climate change presented in the book, stop by the session
Resilient Coastal City Regions Plan for Climate Change (S420) at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, April 14. You can also stop by the Lincoln Institute booth in the exhibit hall during the Exhibitors Open House on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. to meet the authors and discuss the book, which reports on responses to climate change in nine coastal cities and metropolitan regions in the United States and Australia.
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