While current rates of sea level rise and associated coastal flooding in the New York City region appear to be manageable by stakeholders responsible for communications, energy, transportation, and water infrastructure, projections for sea level rise and associated flooding in the future, especially those associated with rapid icemelt of the Greenland and West Antarctic Icesheets, may be beyond the range of current capacity because an extreme event might cause flooding and inundation beyond the planning and preparedness regimes. This paper describes the comprehensive process, approach, and tools developed by the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) in conjunction with the region's stakeholders who manage its critical infrastructure, much of which lies near the coast. It presents the adaptation approach and the sealevel rise and storm projections related to coastal risks developed through the stakeholder process. Climate change adaptation planning in New York City is characterized by a multijurisdictional stakeholder-scientist process, state-of-the-art scientific projections and mapping, and development of adaptation strategies based on a risk-management approach.
As our Master Mediator columnist, Robert A. Creo, takes a break from his extensive, multi‐year coverage of the neuroscience of mediation and goes “back to basics” (see page 156), we have asked New York‐based arbitrator and mediator, Edna Sussman, to summarize for Alternatives her in‐depth research on the brain science of adjudication, particularly in the context of arbitrator decision making.
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