Human responses to rising sea levels

Photo courtesy of Sveriges radio CNDS Director Giuliano Di Baldassare was interviewed on the Swedish radio program Vetenskapsradio På djupet about the methods and responses that are being discussed to deal with the fact that climate change is contributing to rising sea levels that are invading coastlines and forcing millions of people to flee. 

At first glance, the threat and problems may seem insurmountable with huge numbers of people being forced to become climate refugees. But historical experiences show that densely populated coastal communities have been able to withstand dramatically rising sea levels. However in those past cases it has not been about sea level changes due to global warming, but rather that the cities have sunk in relation to the sea. In efforts to counter this, new technology and methods were developed to hold back the sea
 
The following have contibuted to the radio program includes: Robert Nicholls, Professor of Coastal Engineering and Head of the Tyndall Center at the University of East Anglia, Giuliano di Baldassarre, Professor of Hydrology at Uppsala University and Head of the CNDS Center for Natural Disaster Science, and Gia Destouni, Professor of Hydrology at Stockholm University