Usable Science for Managing the Risks of Sea‐Level Rise

• Published in: Earth's future Vol. 7; no. 12; pp. 1235 - 1269
• Main Authors: Kopp, Robert E., Gilmore, Elisabeth A., Little, Christopher M., Lorenzo‐Trueba, Jorge, Ramenzoni, Victoria C., Sweet, William V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2019; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Adaptation; Climate change; Climate change research; Climate science; Climate system; Coastal geomorphology; Decision making; Floods; Future climates; Geodesy and Gravity; Geomorphology; Global Change; Global Change from Geodesy; Grand Challenges in the Earth and Space Sciences; Human Impact; Human Impacts; Hydroclimatology; Hydrological; Hydrology; Ice; Ice sheet dynamics; Ice sheets; Impacts on Humans; Land use; migration; Natural Hazards; Ocean Monitoring with Geodetic Techniques; Oceanic; Oceanography: Physical; open climate campaign; Sea level; Sea Level Change; Sea level changes; Sea level rise; Sea Level: Variations and Mean; Social sciences; Socioeconomic factors; Space Weather; Tides; Uncertainty; Usability; United States > US; New Jersey; migration; adaptation; geomorphology; sea level; decision making; climate change
• ISSN: 2328-4277; 2328-4277
• DOI: 10.1029/2018EF001145

Sea‐level rise sits at the frontier of usable climate climate change research, because it involves natural and human systems with long lags, irreversible losses, and deep uncertainty. For example, many of the measures to adapt to sea‐level rise involve infrastructure and land‐use decisions, which ca...