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Meeting report
Fairbridge, R.W. (1990). Meeting report, in: Paepe, R. et al. Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Geohydrological Management of Sea Level and Mitigation of Drought, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (Spain), March 1-7, 1989. NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 325: pp. 691-706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0_42
In: Paepe, R. et al. (Ed.) (1990). Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Geohydrological Management of Sea Level and Mitigation of Drought, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (Spain), March 1-7, 1989. Digitized reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990. NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 325. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht. ISBN 978-94-009-0701-0. xix, 718 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0, more
In: NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences. D. Reidel: Dordrecht; Boston; Lancaster. ISSN 0258-2023, more

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  • Fairbridge, R.W.

Abstract
    In a recent U.S. National Academy of Sciences report (ed. Dean, 1986), it emerged that basically, for a rising sea-level scenario, there were three options: (a) Retreat (the "Pilkey solution"); voluntary action would be reinforced by legislative incentives and prohibitions; (b) Barrage and dike-building (the “Dutch solution”); this is very costly, but inevitable where national need is established (e.g., Venice, Amsterdam, London); (c) Geohydrologic Management (proposed by Newman and Fairbridge, 1986; and widely noted in the press and TV, e.g. NY. Times, April 11, 1986; The Economist, April 12, 1986); management involves controlled interruption of the river discharge from land areas to the ocean. This last question has recently been studied by a NATO-ARW (March 1–7, 1989), and “Advanced Research Workshop” held at Fuerteventura, Spain, which will be reported here.

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