Abstract
Practitioners
at
the
local
and
regional
scale
are
under
increased
pressure
to
reduce
risks
people
property
posed
by
threats
of
sea‐level
rise
(SLR)
associated
impacts.
To
achieve
this,
a
dialog
between
practitioners
scientists
is
imperative.
Current
research
documents
impacts
SLR,
evaluates
SLR
adaptation
activities,
identifies
barriers
action,
works
assess
adaptive
capacity.
Despite
this
work,
there
has
been
little
qualitative
assessment
practitioners'
needs
when
it
comes
translating
science
into
changes.
fill
gap,
we
used
combination
semi‐structured
interviews
surveys.
The
revealed
practitioners’
needs,
tools
they
use,
challenges
face,
contexts
in
which
make
decisions.
survey
allowed
rank
potential
interventions
according
level
impact
believed
would
have
on
coastal
planning.
In
total
our
study
includes
perspectives
142
from
24
states,
Puerto
Rico,
Mariana
Islands,
Barbados.
Corroborating
earlier
find
that
resources
broadly
funding
specifically
largest
barrier
faced
practitioners.
We
need
more
localized
information
models
supported
ground
monitoring,
decision
support
allow
for
comparison
different
scenarios,
communication
will
enable
them
engage
with
key
audiences.
These
suggest
critical
shift
toward
building
trusted
relationship
bolster
organizations
can
bridge
these
two
contexts.
conference,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 9
Опубликована: Апрель 6, 2025
Abstract
While
various
sectors
of
the
civil
engineering
industry
consider
corrosion
buried
steel
an
important
component
regarding
design,
construction
and
maintenance
critical
assets,
are
we
lagging
in
adopting
new
standards
technologies
to
keep
up
with
changing
subsurface
conditions?
Sea
level
rise
ground
water
pose
a
viable
threat
way
engineers
design
foundation
elements
susceptible
challenging
areas
where
fresh-water
saltwater
interact.
In
review
existing
literature,
there
common
trends
between
climate
change
researchers,
environmental
engineers,
hydrologists,
habitat
conservationists
advocate
for
integrating
advanced
data
analytics
improve
decision
support
systems
infrastructure
management.
This
would
facilitate
more
precisely
pinpointing
how
related
impacts
overall
resiliency
could
help
develop
cost-effective
impactful
actions.
Resiliency
life-cycle
cost
analysis
increasingly
pertinent
realm
consequently
crucial
maintenance,
sustainability
coastal
structures
further
exacerbated
by
rapid
urbanization.
Environmental Science & Technology Letters,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
11(7), С. 664 - 672
Опубликована: Июнь 6, 2024
The
Science-Policy
Panel
(SPP)
on
Chemicals,
Waste,
and
Pollution
Prevention,
now
being
established
under
a
mandate
of
the
United
Nations
Environment
Assembly,
will
address
chemical
pollution,
one
element
triple
planetary
crises
along
with
climate
change
biodiversity
loss.
SPP
should
provide
governments
consensual,
authoritative,
holistic
solution-oriented
assessments,
particularly
relevant
to
low-
middle-income
countries
(LMICs)
and,
we
suggest,
issues
regarding
global
commons.
assessments
be
flexible
in
scope
breadth,
existing
retrospectively
prospectively
minimize
high
costs
human
environment
health
that
come
from
delayed,
slow,
and/or
fragmented
policy
responses.
Two
examples
are
presented
here.
retrospective
example
is
pharmaceutical
which
increasing
importance,
especially
LMICs.
SPP's
assessment
could
identify
data
gaps,
develop
regionally
attuned
options
for
mitigation,
promote
"benign-by-design"
chemistry,
explore
educational
capacity-building
activities,
investigate
financial
mechanisms
implementation.
prospective
risks
posed
by
chemicals
waste
release
critical
technological
infrastructure
sites
vulnerable
sea
level
rise
extreme
weather
events.
Multisectoral
multidisciplinary
inputs
needed
map
"disaster-proofing"
responses,
financing
mechanisms.
new
offers
ambition
enabling
much-needed
explicitly
framed
as
policy-making,
protect,
support
recovery
of,
local
environmental
health.
Scientific Reports,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
14(1)
Опубликована: Июль 6, 2024
Abstract
Subsurface
barriers
have
been
proposed
to
protect
coastal
aquifers
from
sea-level
rise
induced
seawater
intrusion,
but
the
potential
for
groundwater
emergence
near
subsurface
remains
unknown.
Here,
we
investigated
how
changes
flow
conditions
and
influences
protective
performance
of
with
rise.
We
tested
subterranean
consequences
cutoff
walls
dams
cross-shore
salt
transport
models,
investigating
barrier
design,
aquifer
properties,
hydrological
control
emergence,
partitioning
at
barrier,
intrusion
find
that
most
infrastructure
cannot
prevent
simultaneously.
spanning
more
than
half
thickness
created
hazards
subsequent
all
scenarios
tested.
Cutoff
were
less
effective
reducing
opening
sizes
could
reduce
compared
similarly
sized
dams.
Our
results
demonstrate
challenging
trade-offs
in
mitigating
rise,
where
flooding
inland
would
require
combinations
impoundments
other
mitigation
techniques,
such
as
pumping
or
drains.
