Sentences with phrase «mayakoba coastal development»

«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

«Our coastal development needs to withstand extreme conditions, which are likely to occur again in the future.»

He also questioned why the NPP plans to establish a middle belt development authority for Northern Volta and coastal development for the coastal part.

«In their manifesto, they promised to establish a middle belt development authority for northern Volta, and coastal development for the coastal part of the Volta Region.

He however added that, the NDC government has provided more development to the Volta Region in areas of education, health, roads, coastal development among others.

They're a way to start a conversation about things that can seem boring and abstract — acidification, warming, overfishing and coastal development — but that are changing our oceans in fundamental ways.»

From overfishing and pollution to coastal development and climate change, fragile coral ecosystems are disappearing at unprecedented rates around the world.

Sadly, the most pristine reefs, far from the usual threats of sedimentation, coral mining and coastal development, are the primary target for cyanide fishing operations.»

In the short term, with increasing temperatures as well as local human - made threats like coastal development, pollution, and over-fishing, the study found that corals — tiny animals related to jellyfish — would be over-run by seaweed which would, in effect, suffocate them.

Professor Nicholls says: «This long - term perspective is however a challenge to bring about, as coastal development tends to be dominated by short - term interests of, for example, real - estate and tourism companies, which prefer to build directly at the waterfront with little thought about the future.»

The state approved regulations allowing coastal development with the understanding that if sea level rises enough to inundate a property, the property will revert to nature, with the owner footing the bill for dismantling or moving structures.

Pollution and nutrient enrichment, overfishing and coastal development also represent severe threats to their survival.

Armed with a 168 - slide PowerPoint and a message that resonates with North Carolina's conservative Legislature, John Droz has notched a remarkable record fighting sea - rise science, coastal development limits and renewable energy plans

Paddack suspects that as well as overfishing, coral demise from disease and bleaching is to blame, together with pollution from coastal development.

The fact that the number of residential buildings in coastal areas has increased significantly combined with the increasing risks of impacts of due climate change means that the cost of damage to coastal developments are likely to continue to rise.

Professor Rohani Ambo - Rappe of Hasanuddin University, Indonesia, a collaborator on the research stated: «Declining seagrass health is the result of shifting environmental conditions due largely to coastal development, land reclamation, and deforestation, as well as seaweed farming, overfishing and garbage dumping.

The tidewater goby lives in coastal lagoons and is threatened by coastal development and drought.

«This research underscores the necessity for future coastal developments to consider the adverse effects of sediment on fish and reef ecosystems,» adds Dr Wenger.

The commission abandoned the benchmark earlier this year, but a coastal development group whose chairman rejects human - related climate change pressed for legislation to inhibit similar standards in the future.

Besides that, the researchers found that Africa is expected to experience the highest rate of population growth in at - risk areas, driven by its rapid coastal development.

The government is introducing a series of new programs for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, with greater traceability and accountability in marine resource management and area controls on coastal development.

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

Making coastal development less attractive «Governments can make development in coastal areas less attractive by requiring development projects to internalize the risks of sea level rise and storms in coastal development planning and decision making,» the task force argues.

It suggests making coastal development more burdensome through more stringent building codes, siting requirements, and forcing real estate title holders to fully disclose insurance risks associated with storm surges or damage from seawater intrusion.

The bulk of these losses can be attributed to sprawl in regions prone to catastrophe — the total area of coastal development in Florida has increased over 30 percent since 1990.

Disaster risk expert says intense population growth and urban coastal development have created a huge danger

One big challenge is teasing out how intensive coastal development and wetland reclamation may have exacerbated the marine disaster, and how onshore rebuilding may degrade the marine environment.

The task force, led mostly by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) put forth 14 specific recommended changes, mostly calling for revisions to state statutes and executive orders that would tighten environmental review and also make coastal development more costly in an effort to discourage building in sensitive areas.

The coral reefs of the world are in crisis, endangered by a number of coastal threats such as overfishing, pollution, and coastal development as well as global threats such as climate change.

The Network strengthens members» ability to effectively manage coral reefs threatened by warming seas, bleaching, coastal development, pollution, overfishing, and changes in ocean chemistry.

At the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ecosystem at approximately 133,000 square miles (about the size of New Zealand), establishing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in 1975 was a first step, but not until the park was rezoned between 1999 and 2003 was the reef given the protection needed to rebound from threats that include shipping, dredging, commercial fishing, nutrient and pesticide runoff, coastal development and diving.

Major causes of destruction to mangrove ecosystems include deforestation for construction of aquaculture ponds and other forms of unsustainable coastal development.

How effectively we manage fishing, coastal development, pollution, trawling and shipping will play an important part in determining the future resilience of the Great Barrier Reef.

Furthermore, the I.I.I. notes the number of people buying NFIP policies nationwide has plunged by 549,000 — almost 10 percent — since 2009, even as coastal development surges and sea levels rise.

Entrapment in fishing nets and lines, boat strikes, and coastal development that interferes with reproduction are major causes.

But as this article discovers, it's still relatively easy to get away from the coastal developments and see the rest of the country.

BACONGO recommends a moratorium on coastal development projects until the Coastal Zone Management Plan is approved by Cabinet.

Belize Alliance of Conservation Non-Government Organizations, BACONGO, stated, «we would like to express our concerns over the escalating pace of coastal development, the lack of a coordinated national coastal zone management plan and the increasing cumulative impacts on marine resources and marine - based livelihoods.

By the end of the 1980s, in an attempt to attract more upscale travelers, the government restricted coastal development and soon a wave of swanky heritage hotels opened.

Management challenges and threats that impact on the integrity of the property include; overharvesting of marine resources, coastal development, tourism, industrial development and proposed oil and gas exploration and exploitation.

Perhaps the primary factor in the decline of green turtles, hawksbill turtles and loggerhead turtles is unsustainable coastal development.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

Increasing rates of sea - level rise and intensity and frequency of coastal storms and hurricanes over the next decades will increase threats to shorelines, wetlands, and coastal development.

While it is true that climate change poses an enormous risk for the future because of coral bleaching and more acidic oceans, the fact is that reefs protected from overfishing, excessive coastal development and pollution are more resilient to these stresses.

I'm sorry; apparently I was uncouth: I sent this e-mail: Hello Mr. Revkin, I was stimulated to write to you on account of today's Cornelia Dean article about coastal development and how society insanely encourages such unsustainable development.

Coral reefs in much of the Caribbean have been badly degraded in recent decades by die - offs of algae - munching sea urchins, high - temperature bleaching events, overfishing, invasive species and runoff from fast - paced coastal development.

In regions of the Indian Ocean where there had been uncontrolled and unregulated coastal development, there was carnage.

Develop and implement adaptive legislation and regulations to ensure that threats to coral reefs are systematically addressed, particularly threats posed by fisheries, tourism and coastal development as determined by established indicators of reef health.

Federal taxpayers also heavily subsidize coastal development when the government pays to rebuild infrastructure destroyed in storm surges and picks up much of the bill for private losses not covered by insurance.

Gillis appropriately focuses a substantial portion of his article on federal programs that, even in the face of clear evidence of rising seas in a warming world, perpetuate coastal development: