{"261571":{"#nid":"261571","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Time to plan for sea level rise is now writes Larry Keating and Dana Habeeb","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith more than half of the world\u0027s population living less than 100 miles from the ocean, sea level rise due to climate change poses a substantial threat to human civilization. A recent study led by Larry Keating (Professor Emeritus) and Dana Habeeb (doctorate student) at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of City and Regional Planning and funded by the Georgia Conservancy examined the effects of sea level rise on coastal Georgia\u0027s Chatham, Liberty, and McIntosh counties. Keating, Habeeb, and a group of graduate planning students found that \u0022Nearly 31 percent of the land in the three counties, roughly 419 square miles, will be inundated by sea level rise. More than 20,000 households and more than 50,000 people \u2014 85 percent of them in Chatham \u2014 will be submerged.\u0022 The group added, \u0022It is time to think about responding to these very real eventualities.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2013-12-17 11:49:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:54","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Joanne Cole","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/clatl.com\/atlanta\/georgias-new-coast-courtesy-of-climate-change\/Content?oid=9901611","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"7143","name":"coastal"},{"id":"64721","name":"dana habeeb"},{"id":"82351","name":"georgia coast"},{"id":"10186","name":"Larry Keating"},{"id":"168986","name":"sea level rise"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}