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|a Between the devil and the deep blue sea |h [electronic resource] |b Florida's unenviable position with respect to sea level rise |y English. |
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|a Climatic Change |b Volume 107 |y English. |
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|a This paper introduces and summarizes a series of articles on the potential
impacts of sea level rise on Florida’s natural and human communities and what
might be done to reduce the severity of those impacts. Most of the papers in this
special issue of Climatic Change were developed from presentations at a symposium
held at Archbold Biological Station in January 2010, sponsored by the Florida
Institute for Conservation Science. Symposium participants agreed that adaptation
to sea level rise for the benefit of human communities should be planned in concert
with adaptation to reduce vulnerability and impacts to natural communities and
native species. The papers in this special issue discuss both of these categories of
impacts and adaptation options. In this introductory paper, I place the subject in
context by noting that that the literature in conservation biology related to climate
change has been concerned largely about increasing temperatures and reduced
moisture availability, rather than about sea level rise. The latter, however, is the most
immediate and among themost severe impacts of global warming in low-lying regions
such as Florida. I then review the content of this special issue by summarizing and interpreting
the following 10 papers. I conclude with a review of the recommendations
for research and policy that were developed from group discussions at the Archbold
symposium. The main lesson that emerges from this volume is that sea level rise,
combined with human population growth, urban development in coastal areas, and
landscape fragmentation, poses an enormous threat to human and natural well-being
in Florida. How Floridians respond to sea level rise will offer lessons, for better or
worse, for other low-lying regions worldwide. |
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