Loss of Towns and Villages to the Sea

Loss of Towns and Villages to the Sea

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...
Mangroves from a Geomorphologist Perspective

Mangroves from a Geomorphologist Perspective

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...
Complex Disasters: Compounding, Cascading and Protracted

Complex Disasters: Compounding, Cascading and Protracted

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...
Federal Coastal Legislation – Public Trust Principles

Federal Coastal Legislation – Public Trust Principles

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...