by ACS.Admin | May 31, 2023 | Blog
Loss of Towns and Villages to the Sea Coastal policy discussion around adaptation to climate change frequently invokes the “holy trinity”: protect, accommodate, retreat. Such discussion provokes property owners at potential risk of coastal erosion/shoreline recession...
by ACS.Admin | May 19, 2023 | Blog
Mangroves from a Geomorphologist Perspective Before arriving in Baton Rouge to commence graduate studies at Louisiana State University in late 1962, I attended a lecture in Sydney by a mangrove ecologist named Bill Macnae. He was a South African visiting Australian...
by ACS.Admin | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
Complex Disasters: Compounding, Cascading and Protracted I recently received a copy of a book edited by Anna Lukasiewicz and Tayanah O’Donnell entitled “Complex Disasters: Compounding, Cascading and Protracted”. It was published late 2022 as part of a series by...
by ACS.Admin | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog
Coasts and Climate Change – Don Wright’s Perspective Many Australian coastal colleagues know Don Wright either personally or through his publications. I have been privileged to have been a colleague since the early 1907s when we teamed up to study...
by ACS.Admin | Mar 23, 2023 | Blog
Federal Coastal Legislation – Public Trust Principles In two recent blogs (Nos 227 and 233), I outlined how US federal coastal legislation offered a strategic, long-term approach to coastal management in cooperation with the states. Although not without...