RFF
June 2009
America's infrastructure—in transportation; energy generation and transmission; water, sewer, and telecommunications; and coastal defense—may be compromised by extreme weather events, rising temperatures, and other effects of global climate change. The threats are assessed in a new RFF Report, "Adapting to Climate Change: The Public Policy Response—Public Infrastructure."
Authors James E. Neumann and Jason C. Price, of Industrial Economics, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, examine climate-sensitive areas that could be imperiled by climate consequences such as flooding of lowlands, roads, and railway; loss of permafrost; clean water availability; damage to power lines and refineries; and overloading of sewer systems.
The report is one in a series issued as part of a major RFF project on domestic adaptation policy.
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