Climate Change and the Future of Boston
By Courtney Humphries
Climate Change and the Future of the North American City Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
Other Formats Available:
- About This Book
- Reviews
- Author Information
- Series
- Table of Contents
- Links
- Podcasts
About This Book
Like many of the world’s iconic coastal cities, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions, Boston could face several feet of sea level rise this century, which would leave many parts of the city subject to tidal and storm flooding. Precipitation events could become more frequent and extreme, and its already-humid summers could become dangerously hot, with most days over 90 degrees. Today, Boston is a booming city with a growing population, a glittering new waterfront neighborhood, world-class universities, and a strong economy. Its future risks and opportunities related to climate change are shaped by the 400-year environmental, social, and economic history of the city’s development.
As part of Anthem’s series, Anthem Climate Change and the Future of the North American City, Climate Change and the Future of Boston describes how Boston’s history and current context shape future climate impacts, and examines the mitigation and adaptation strategies the city has taken so far. Boston has taken a lead in acknowledging the problem of climate change; it has set a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050, among other climate-related goals. It has also developed science-based climate models and undertaken a robust planning process to identify strategies to protect its waterfront from flooding with sea level rise and increase its resilience to other climate-related impacts. But the city also faces structural challenges, such as aging infrastructure, historic racial inequities, rising gentrification and income inequality, and ongoing political and regulatory obstacles that hinder efforts to adapt in an efficient and just manner. The book concludes with a set of forward-looking scenarios about what the future may have in store for the city and the lessons it holds for other coastal cities struggling with these challenges.
Reviews
Author Information
Courtney Humphries is an award-winning journalist writing about science and the urban environment and a PhD candidate in environmental sciences at University of Massachusetts Boston.
Series
Climate Change and the Future of the North American City
Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
Table of Contents
Links
Stay Updated
Information
Latest Tweets
-
Published this month, Uncertainty Bands explores the philosophy of economic forecasting under uncertainty.… https://t.co/hoDsDd6opt
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
Recently published Trends in Comparative Law and Economics is a short introduction to comparative law and economics… https://t.co/9AYx1MeMQg
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
Transpacific Connections a June title is about cross-cultural work combining studies and including new research on… https://t.co/wOlSnA0r9s
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
The Theatre of Fake News published this month argues that theatre and drama help us to understand the concern about… https://t.co/XPit3u1MT9
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
Recently published Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression re-evaluates the co… https://t.co/nhzhoAvQOE
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
Published in June, Poetics of Race in Latin America talks about a critically and theoretically innovative analysis… https://t.co/O3bVqyMt9k
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
Extending Hinge Epistemology has been recently published. It explores new applications and directions of hinge epis… https://t.co/SdIiT2LrMg
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
Recently published: This book helps to provide a better understanding of what has caused things to go wrong cultura… https://t.co/CDcAbzk0nI
- 13:29:13 on 29/06/2022 -
'Start Me Up and Keep Me Growing: Management Learnings from the Rolling Stones' by Bertold Bär-Bouyssiere is finall… https://t.co/CNVRTj5DSJ
- 07:29:13 on 16/06/2022 -
At @NorwayinUK last week Geir-Egil Løken, Svein Tore Bergestuen, Asbjørn Rachlew discussed their new Anthem publica… https://t.co/TnPH4u4wMD
- 07:29:13 on 01/06/2022