Open AccessFloods, Climate Change, and Urban Resilience: One Policy Maker's Perspective
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo240002
Subject(s) - storm surge , flooding (psychology) , resilience (materials science) , climate change , storm , geography , population , urban resilience , flood myth , perspective (graphical) , environmental science , hydrology (agriculture) , water resource management , urban planning , oceanography , archaeology , meteorology , geology , civil engineering , engineering , psychotherapist , sociology , psychology , thermodynamics , physics , demography , geotechnical engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science
When Hurricane Sandy battered the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard in October 2012, strong winds generated a storm surge that caused waters from the Hudson River to wash across Hoboken, N.J. Those waters flooded about 80% of the city, population 50,000, that lies across the river from Manhattan. The flooding caused more than $100 million in private property damage and more than $10 million in municipal property damage while impairing the region's transportation system.