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Floating Solutions for Challenges Facing Humanity

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ICSCEA 2019

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This paper presents a variety of floating solutions that aim to address a diverse set of global challenges and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The challenges include energy insecurity, water and food shortages, and environmental threats to fragile coastal environments from rising sea levels, extreme storms and pollution. Floating solutions offer a new approach to coastal urban development to support the blue economy while reducing the impact of coastal land pressures, increase connections between communities through connecting infrastructure over deep waters and soft seabed conditions, and address large tidal variations in harbours to allow the expansion of port terminals in deep waters. A vision of hybrid floating cities and satellite floating cities in international waters will also be presented.

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The authors are grateful to the Australian Research Council in providing the research funds for Discovery Projects on Floating Forest and the Next Generation Blue Aquaculture Farms.

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia

    C. M. Wang

  2. School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia

    Brydon T. Wang

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

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  2. School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia

    Chien Ming Wang

  3. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Van Hai Luong

  4. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Anh Tuan Le

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Wang, C.M., Wang, B.T. (2020). Floating Solutions for Challenges Facing Humanity. In: Reddy, J., Wang, C., Luong, V., Le, A. (eds) ICSCEA 2019. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 80. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5144-4_1

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