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Climate Innovation

For Adapting to Rising Tides

Imagine the result

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Development of World Cities

Data source:

U.N. Population Division

Courtesy, Paul Reiter, Exec Director, IWA

World Cities exceeding

5 million residents 1950



2000 World Cities exceeding

5 million residents

Data source:





2015 World Cities exceeding

5 million residents

Data source:



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Rotterdam

Source: Rode Delta’s

2050: Majority of World Population Will Live in Coastal Cities

Jakarta

Shanghai

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Jakarta: The BIGGEST challenge on Earth?


Peter Wijsman - ARCADIS

San Francisco Bay


Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy

1

Outer Layer of Defense

Larger, engineered solutions such as

barriers, beach fortification, sea gates, pump

stations, offshore structures

2

Middle Layer of Defense

Transition zone, sustainable coastlines and

waterways, barriers, marshes and

multifunctional levees 3

Inner Layer of Defense

Local solutions designed to protect critical

infrastructure and integrate water

management and urban planning

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New York – Post Sandy

Protection of Critical Infrastructure

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Verizon Telecommunication - 140 West Street

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NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation

Coler Hospital – Roosevelt Island

Bellevue Hospital

Metropolitan Hospital

Coney Island Hospital

Imagine the result

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