Ways+to+Cope+with+Sea+Level+Rise

Sea Level rise has been one of the major problems being discussed when talking about Global Warming. It is important to understand there are various reasons for managing those outcomes including but not limited to:
 * __STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING SEA LEVEL RISE__**

//The barrier could be fixed in place and allow managed flow through a portal for water exchange, tidal function and navigation.// Examples include:Rotterdam, Netherlands, it is expected to be closed about every 10 years to hold off a surge of more than three meters.
 * BARRIER**

//Linear protection, such as levees and seawalls, that fix the shoreline in its current place.// Examples include:
 * COASTAL ARMORING**
 * The Netherlands, one-third of which lies several meters below sea level, protects most of the country by some form of coastal armoring. It is also pioneering new kinds of levees and new uses for them. For example, a "smart levee" is embedded with a series of networked monitors that can predict a breach more than a day in advance. The Dutch also employ double dikes, where an interior levee and a higher exterior levee placed several hundred meters apart create a space for floodwater to collect. Housing is not allowed to be built in these spaces.

//raising the height of land or existing development and protecting it with coastal armoring.// Examples include:
 * ELEVATED DEVELOPMENT**
 * Treasure Island Master Plan, which would elevate the building pad for the island's proposed developed area and concentrate development there. The plan also calls for protecting the buildings with a levee and a wide setback.

//Structures that float on the surface of the water, or may be floated occasionally during a flood, making them largely invulnerable to changing tides.// Examples include:
 * FLOATING DEVELOPMENT**
 * Floating homes in Sausalito, where the first houseboat communities were established in the 1960s. Floating homes also are popular in other waterfront cities with relatively protected waterfronts: Redwood City, Seattle, and Amsterdam.

//Structures that are designed to withstand flooding or to retain stormwater.// Examples include:
 * FLOODABLE DEVELOPMENT**
 * In Rotterdam, Netherlands, a large underground parking garage under construction will hold water instead of cars during peak floods.

//Wetlands are the natural form of our shoreline. They absorb floods, slow erosion and provide habitat.//
 * LIVING SHORELINES**

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 * ARTICLES ABOUT SEA LEVEL RISE**

There are many ways to cope with the sea level rise, and all of them include a certain number of advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of building barriers is its effectiveness; it is able to protect a huge area of land from flooding with one project. However, there is an economic disadvantage. Building barriers require an expensive construction which is majorly financed by the government that in some countries can be an opportunity for corruption and affects the durability of the process. Barriers are also ecologically damaging the salinity, sedimentation, wetlands, wildlife of the area increasing coastal erosion. Another sea level coping process is the Coastal Armoring, some of the advantages are it is known and predictable to the humans familiar it can be used against storms and baseline sea level rise and it can also accommodate new development such as houses and roads. Some of the disadvantages are it is a short-term solution the coastal armoring can only stop a certain level of sea level rise, it requires costly maintenance. Ironically, it increases vulnerability to floods the hard shoreline protection is not as effective as natural shorelines at dissolving the energy from waves as a result, armored shorelines tend to be more vulnerable to erosion effecting nearby beaches. For every solution there are advantages and disadvantages, it’s up to the population and the government to choose which way is more effective in coping with the sea level rise problem.
 * EXAMPLES OF ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES**

[] This article talks about the cause of sea level rise related to the thermal expansion of the sea water it relates the sea level rise to the temperature rise.
 * CURRENT EVENT**

Researcher Hamish Pritchard is a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey which released studies which claims that the melting and thinning of floating ice shelves could eventually trigger a rise in sea level. Scientist believe that "If the entire Western Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt - something that would take many decades if not centuries - scientists have estimated it would lift global sea levels by about 16 feet."
 * SCIENTIST**

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 * VIDEO**
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