A 51 cm rise in sea levels could inundate more than 5,000 square miles of dry land and 4,000 square miles of wetlands in the United States if no action is taken to protect threatened areas. A smaller 30 cm rise would subject 6 million households to flooding.
Amit Kapur
Position:
Research Fellow
Degrees:
Ph.D. Industrial Ecology, Yale University, 2004
M.S. Environmental Engineering, Perdue University, 1997
Publications:
- Copper Mines Above and Below the Ground
- CSS Factsheets, U.S. Material Use
- Dynamic Modeling of Cement In-Use Stocks in United States
- Dynamic Modeling of In-Use Cement Stocks in United States
- Dynamic modeling of material stocks - case study of cement flows in United States
- The Contemporary Cement Cycle of the United States
- The future of the red metal - A developing country perspective from India
- The future of the red metal - scenario analysis
- The future of the red metal: discards, energy, water, residues, and depletion