Sentences with phrase «by coastal development»

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

Not exact matches

A 2008 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development examined the risk of exposure to coastal flooding caused by storm surge for 136 port cities around the world.

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.

Although risks are distributed across all levels of economic development, wealthy countries effectively limit their present - day threat by gross domestic product — enabled infrastructure and coastal defense investments.

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.»

Already half of China's coastal wetlands have disappeared over the past 50 years, enclosed by seawalls or overrun by ports and other development, according to the analysis, released here Monday by China's State Forestry Administration (SFA), the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, and the Paulson Institute, a nonprofit based in Chicago.

A group of social scientists from the USA, Australia, UK, and Chile, led by Prof. Cinner, have pooled their experience, and lessons from hundreds of research and development projects, to highlight five keys ways to build up the adaptive capacity of people living in the coastal tropics.

A Government guidance note on coastal planning, issued in September, says that new building developments away from existing urban areas should not in general be allowed on coasts threatened by erosion.

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.

In August 2013, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued an analysis of economic damage incurred among the world's largest 136 coastal cities and the damage they will sustain by 2050 under the same conditions.

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.

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 conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

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

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

This has set off a mini gold rush, especially in the coastal areas along the Black Sea where the coastline is still largely unspoiled by development.

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.

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

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.

The island's stands of giant coreopsis, as well as all the other plants of its coastal bluff community, were devastated by sheep grazing in the late 1800s and early 1900s, rabbit browsing in 1910 - 1950s, and by large - scale destruction of native vegetation associated with facility and road development by the U.S. Coast Guard during construction and manning of the Anacapa Light Station.

Because the course is not part of any real estate development or urban area, it allows players to enjoy their game in completely natural surroundings with uninterrupted views of sea and mountain in the spectacular setting provided by Spain's Levante region — the southeastern Mediterranean shore with its coastal range.

Half of the coastal area is protected by national parks and wildlife refuges, which has slowed development and the building of access roads, making it an especially verdant place to get away from it all.

But arts - led developments are deep - rooted along this stretch of coast: in Margate, where the kernel for the Turner Contemporary gallery can be traced right back to 1994; in Folkestone, where the Creative Foundation, led by entrepreneur Roger De Haan, was taking hold at the turn of the millennium; and across many smaller coastal towns and villages, from Broadstairs to Dungeness, where artists have settled because of the quality of the light, following the late Derek Jarman, who moved there in the mid-1980s.

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.

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.

Exploding coastal development as well as higher seas and more powerful storms brought by climate change will exacerbate an already dire situation.

Marine life in the Caribbean has been badly hurt in recent decades by everything from an introduced pathogen that killed off reef - grooming sea urchins to more familiar insults like overfishing and impacts of tourism and coastal development.

Human development including the disruption of normal coastal geomorphic forces by coastal infrastructure assure that any change in global temperature and consequent sea level, will be a disaster to these environments.

These problems will be exacerbated for mangroves that are subjected to coastal squeeze — where migration of these mangroves towards land is restricted by topography or human developments.

For example, restricting development of land in flood plains and in coastal locations affected by hurricane storm surge is an effective adaptation strategy regardless of how climate changes.

The overarching goal of this WCRP research effort, led by WCRP's Core Project «Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change» (CLIVAR) as a Research Focus, is to establish a quantitative understanding of the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of regional to local sea level variability; to promote advances in observing systems required for an integrated sea level monitoring; and to foster the development of sea level predictions and projections that are of increasing benefit for coastal zone management.

My brother, who lives in South Gippsland, tells me the Victorian Government [Australia] has quietly had all the restrictions on coastal development imposed by local councils removed.

The first words spoken in Shored Up, a documentary that highlights the destructive folly of unchecked coastal development, refer not just to the scenes of devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy, but also the unwinnable battle being waged against rising seas and shifting sands.

My heart goes out to the activists working to save all these spots, from the ongoing fight to save Trestles from being destroyed by road development, to the efforts to restore Ocean Beach and Pacifica from the negative effects of accelerated coastal erosion.

Dollar damages due to expansion of expensive coastal developments (ironically encouraged by the drop in landfalling hurricanes?)

Samir was appointed by the Bombay High Court on a Committee to assess the impacts of development on the tidal movement of a coastal river in Mumbai.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Strategy 4: Support Local Planning for Addressing Sea - Level Rise Impacts by 2011, all coastal jurisdictions should begin development of amended Local Coastal Programs and general plans that include climate change impacts.

Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to enter into an arrangements with NAS to study: (1) the current status of ice sheet melt, as caused by climate change, with implications for global sea level rise; and (2) the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone coastal regions.

• Tools, datasets, and land management information to support coastal planning, including better data and resources provided via platforms that improve their usability by decision makers • Linking physical vulnerability with economic analysis, planning, and assessment of adaptation options • Improving understanding of increased risks of and damage from coastal storm surge flooding • Developing risk - management approaches for coastal development and local land - use planning

By prohibiting the development of any new fossil fuel infrastructure necessary to serve new leases, such as pipelines, in all coastal lands under the authority of the State Lands Commission, our state can stop this dangerous plan.

Ongoing coastal development and population growth are projected to exacerbate the risks resulting from sea - level rise and increases in the severity and frequency of storms and coastal flooding by 2050.

Ocean planning provides a unique opportunity to protect outstanding coastal places before they become threatened by development.

His colleague Professor Nicholls adds: «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 on the waterfront with little thought about the future.»

«Wetland restoration provides a wealth of benefits including storm surge reduction, habitat preservation, carbon sequestration and recreation; as well as job creation, and economic development that are vital to Louisiana's sustainability and resilience,» states Michael Hecht, President & CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc. «By innovating creative financing solutions for coastal restoration, local companies like Tierra Resources are contributing to the growing hub of Emerging Environmental expertise that can be found in Greater New Orleans.»

Global warming is now accelerating the rate of sea level rise, increasing flooding risks to low - lying communities and high - risk coastal properties whose development has been encouraged by today's flood insurance system.

These include breeder and thorium reactor technology development to replace fossil fueled power, energy storage research, energy efficiency incentives, and careful review of region climate risks (like coastal flooding) followed by appropriate planing.

Around the world, marine environments are threatened by overfishing, warming waters, ocean acidification, and coastal development.