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Coastal cities face tremendous shocks and challenges in the years ahead. Cultivating urban resilience will be a challenge but will offer opportunities to enhance quality of life and livability, as the efforts of cities like Rotterdam show.
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Rotterdam Climate Initiative, Rotterdam Climate Proof: Adaptation Programme 2010, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009.
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Interview with Arnoud Molenaar, July, 2012, Rotterdam.
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Beatley, T. (2015). Risk and Adaptive Planning for Coastal Cities. In: Fra.Paleo, U. (eds) Risk Governance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9328-5_26
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