IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/jsd123/v9y2016i4p216.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Sustainable Coastal Cities between Theory and Practice (Case Study: Egyptian Coastal Cities)

Author

Listed:
  • Ingy El Barmelgy
  • Sarah Abdel Rasheed

Abstract

Climate change is no longer considered an environmental or scientific issue but rather a developmental challenge that requires urgent, dynamic policy and technical responses at the regional, national and local levels. Its actions and responses impact sustainable development, ensuring the integrity of all ecosystems and the protection of biodiversity. There has been an intensive discussion and research about sea level rise (S.L.R) one of the most negative impacts of climate change which affects many coastal cities around the world. Egypt is considered one of the top five countries expected to be impacted with S.L.R in the world, especially northern areas of the Nile Delta and cities located on the Mediterranean coast.This paper aims to evaluate the impact of S.L.R on the urban development strategies of the Egyptian northern coastal cities; highlighting the national response to global efforts regarding this problem in order to enhance the capacity for the adaptation and mitigation of potential impacts in the long term. Finally, it suggests some recommendations and framework actions to be taken to help Egyptian coastal cities in dealing with climate change over different timescales.

Suggested Citation

  • Ingy El Barmelgy & Sarah Abdel Rasheed, 2016. "Sustainable Coastal Cities between Theory and Practice (Case Study: Egyptian Coastal Cities)," Journal of Sustainable Development, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(4), pages 216-216, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:ibn:jsd123:v:9:y:2016:i:4:p:216
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/download/60688/33234
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/60688
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:jsd123:v:9:y:2016:i:4:p:216. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.