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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
149Understanding Sea Level Rise and CoastalHazards
temperature is estimated to be about −0.6°C (Grinsted et al. 2009), although it is
uncertain if this would fully account for any lagged effect of the combustion of
fossil fuels should it become clearly detectable and prominent.
We briey look at the role of climate subject to global warming, followed
by scientic and engineering research issues related to responses and pre-
diction of impacts.
4.4 Climate Impacts
4.4.1 Coastal Storms
Vulnerability-and-risk analysis is the rst step in any coastal impact assessment
for considering appropriate site-specic responses associated with a particular
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