“Resilience is the new sustainability, especially for coastal cities and regions facing a potent mix of climate change shocks and impacts. Blakely and Carbonell have assembled an impressive set of cases and authors, likely the single best source of information about climate change planning and adaptation in the United States and Australia. The book provides a rich array of ideas, best practices, and innovative solutions for tackling climate change, and is essential reading for planners, citizens, or public officials involved in charting the future of coastal cities and regions. This collection of cases will inform, motivate, and inspire other coastal urban regions in simultaneously adapting to and mitigating global climate change. The book provides a badly needed does of hope – that coastal cities and regions around the world have the power to take tangible and effective steps to confront and plan for climate change, and can provide essential leadership in times of national and international complacency and inaction.”

Edward J. Blakely is honorary professor of urban policy at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Armando Carbonell is vice president of programs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.