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| in1000 years a large part of Lebanon's coast will be under water |
The future of Lebanon’s coastal cities and their flood mitigation and sea rise plans are affected by two main things:
1- The constantly and drastically changing environment causing the rise in sea levels, increase in storms and their frequency, sinking landmasses and wild waves are all some results we are observing constantly among others.
2- Planning disabilities that contain lack of funding, long time periods plans with no direct encouraging results, unclear understanding of issues and results, lack of management and communication between diverse stakeholders…
None of us today can forget the images of Hurricane Katrina or the recent tsunamis. Our coastlines are much denser today and are growing so the scale of disaster we will face is drastic. Yet avoiding such disasters even some of which will appear in as far as 1000 years may be managed in a positive manner starting today. (previous blog entry maps 1000 years water rise effect on Beirut. http://goo.gl/HXjWb)
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| Current condition of sea level in relation to Lebanon |
I will highlight several strategies to ‘overcome’ the reality of loosing coastal communities that are an intrinsic part of our histories, contribute to the economy, and are home to millions of residents . These strategies are long term plans and are sometimes used in fragments on some areas and are governed by funding and investors. To avoid the coastal areas drowning these strategies nee to be used on all the coast.
The main three strategies presented are
1- RESIGN: phased out abandonment of the coastal city area of Beirut
2- OVERPOWER: land reclamation to build habitable dam types
3- INTEGRATE: floating a city: new types of development
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| in1000 years a large part of Beirut's coast will be under water that is if we do not get a tsunami before |
