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This book highlights various solutions for the required transition of coastal cities due to +1m sea level rise. The current understanding is that infrastructure, buildings, industry, and communities have to be protected by engineering-based solutions, or cities have to retreat. The book adds two more solutions where cities can advance onto the water or can accommodate. All four different concepts are introduced and presented in a manual and as urban design proposals for one specific site. Therefore, the book can be used in two ways: Either as a general guide for urban transition processes due to +1m sea level rise, or as demonstration project how differently sites can be developed further and created thereby additional opportunities.

This book highlights a research-based design proposal which has the purpose of relieving from lack of global food supply. Due to the current overuse of land, it suggests an extension of aquatic food production with floating devices onto the sea. These devices are called SeaOasis because they function as an oasis as closed-loop systems and are therefore highly sustainable. Best geographic conditions for an extension from agriculture to aquaculture by SeaOasis match with coastal areas with serious or alarming hunger index. The low complexity, low-cost construction and the manageable size of the design is ideal for smallholders to support food security in terms of accessibility, affordability, and diversity of diet. Various configurations are described and coupled with expected revenues for potential seed-funded demonstration projects. The book presents the entire process from problem statement to design development and the preparation of its implementation. It showcases therefore also the benefits of aquatectural design as an interdisciplinary combination of aquatic architectural design, marine engineering and biology, sociology and economy.

Intro -- Foreword by Prof. Andrew T. Smith -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Re-Building Coastal Cities: 20 Tactics to Take Advantage of Sea-Level Rise -- 1 Sea-Level Rise (SLR) -- 2 Urban Flooding -- 3 Re-Building Coastal Cities -- 4 Risks as Opportunities -- 5 Urban Elements -- 6 Urban Adaptation Models for SLR -- 7 20 Tactics -- 8 Discussion -- References -- Design Strategies for Coastal Adaptation Urban Speculation in Palm Beach, Gold Coast-Australia -- 1 Introduction: Study Drivers -- 2 Design Strategies -- 3 Project Exegesis -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- When It's Time to Let Go: Re-Imagining Coastal Urban Living in the Face of Rising Seas -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Living Harmoniously with Water -- 3 Managed Retreat and Resettlement -- 3.1 Australia -- 3.2 The United States -- 3.3 The Netherlands -- 3.4 The United Kingdom -- 3.5 New Zealand -- 4 Opportunities: Re-Imagining the Future of Sea Cities in a Changing Climate -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Lo-TEK: Underwater and Intertidal Nature-Based Technologies -- 1 Changing Grounds -- 2 Lo-TEK -- 3 Adaptation Pathways -- 3.1 Defend/Protect -- 3.2 Surrender/Accommodate -- 3.3 Offend/Advance -- 3.4 Retreat -- 4 Futures -- 4.1 Hybridizing Ecosystem-Based Approach is the Best Scenario for Infrastructural Resilience -- 5 Conclusion-Further Discussion -- References -- Exploiting Sediment- and Morpho-Dynamics in Coastal Adaptation Strategies to Sea-Level Rise: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of Geomorphology Along the Coast of the Mekong Delta -- 2.1 Sediment Accumulation and Formation of the Mekong Delta -- 2.2 Subaqueous Delta and Longshore Sediment Transport -- 2.3 Shoreline Erosion and Sediment Supply Reduction.

Developing Aquatic Urbanism: A Taxonomy describing 35 Tactics -- Systemic urban-wetland interdependencies -- HydroPolis: How to evolve solutions for floating Eco-Village collectives? -- An overview of artificial islands growth processes and their adaptation to sea-level rise -- Transferring the Plastic Sea into the Sea: Environmental Opportunities for Floating Greenhouses in Almería (Spain) -- Floating Jakarta: A Human Dimension -- Marine spatial planning at the municipal scale: lessons from China and Sweden.