Hurricane Sandy and the devastation it left in its wake were a disaster waiting to happen. That is not only the conclusion of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which warned in 2009 that a storm surge was all but inevitable, but also of Dutch experts who have advised New York on its water safety.
After hurricane Irene in 2011 the city commissioned Jeroen Aerts, professor of water and climate risk at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Amsterdam’s Free University, to compare existing measures such as zoning, building codes, and flood insurance to the cost and effectiveness of large-scale megastructures such as storm-surge barriers. The presentation of the first draft of his conclusions was planned for February.
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