{"id":1210,"date":"2009-12-09T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2011-02-09T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:21:37","slug":"climate-defense-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/climate-defense-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"climate defense systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/05\/AR2009120502186.html?hpid=artslot\">article from Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post discusses<\/a> the development of &#8220;climate defense systems&#8221;, resulting from an increasing interest in not just climate change prevention, but also climate change adaptation.\u00a0 The article is particularly focused on the Netherlands, where <em>&#8220;the Dutch are spending billions of euros on &#8216;floating communities&#8217; that can rise with surging flood waters, on cavernous garages that double as urban floodplains and on re-engineering parts of [the] coastline&#8221;<\/em>, as well as <em>&#8220;engaging in &#8220;selective relocation&#8221; of farmers from flood-prone areas and expanding rivers and canals to contain anticipated swells&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article from Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post discusses the development of &#8220;climate defense systems&#8221;, resulting from an increasing interest in not just climate change prevention, but also climate change adaptation.\u00a0 The article is particularly focused on the Netherlands, where &#8220;the Dutch are spending billions of euros on &#8216;floating communities&#8217; that can rise with surging flood waters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,3],"tags":[139,444,118,133,848,121],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-infrastructure","category-landscape","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-defense-systems","tag-flood-control","tag-hydrology","tag-infrastructure","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}