Colleagues, Some of you might be interested in this study, released today. --sv
From: UMass Boston This Week <[email protected]> Reply-To: News <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 12:45 PM To: Stacy VanDeveer <[email protected]> Subject: UMass Boston Report: Boston Harbor Barrier Costs Would Outweigh Benefits [University of Massachusetts Boston This Week] UMass Boston Report: Boston Harbor Barrier Costs Would Outweigh Benefits As the City of Boston advances solutions to protect neighborhoods from climate change-induced flooding, a new independent report released today by the Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston advises against pursuing a harbor barrier in coming decades as part of larger resilience efforts. The analysis found a barrier strategy to be technically impractical and less effective, dollar for dollar, than continued investment in shore-based coastal protection solutions such as those described in the City’s Climate Ready Boston plans. “Harbor barrier systems have been a helpful tool for certain other coastal cities, but in this case, Boston would be making a bet on a massive infrastructure project with limited benefits compared to the alternative,” said Paul Kirshen, academic director of the Sustainable Solutions Lab, professor of climate adaptation in the School for the Environment, and the report’s lead author. More<https://thepoint.umb.edu/tl.php?p=2jy/2ic/rs/2sb/tz/rs//https%3A%2F%2Fwww.umb.edu%2Fnews%2Fdetail%2Fumass_boston_report_boston_harbor_barrier_costs_would_outweigh_benefits> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
