Sentences with phrase «coastal development»

The researchers also looked for correlations between extreme weather events and support for policies to adapt to those particular events — for example, coastal flooding and restrictions on coastal development.

She has over 20 years of experience in permitting and environmental compliance for marine and coastal development projects.

The following outlines essential elements of effective coastal management plans and state climate change adaptation plans, highlighting key criteria to guide future coastal development and management practices.

Even if they are wrong, existing reactors were built (along with most coastal developments) during a period of historically low hurricane activity and a return to baseline seems likely.

Actions could range from developing drought - resistant crops to eliminating federal insurance and other subsidies that have long encouraged coastal development.

When powerful storms combine with increased sea level rise and intense coastal development, they provide the ingredients for massive destruction, loss of life and major economic losses.

Florida chapters successfully worked on insurance reform to reduce state subsidies for coastal development in high - risk areas.

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

Just as we are now starting to see governments limit coastal development on erosian prone coastlines, do we need to stop some development in fire risk areas?

This year's documentary, as yet unnamed, will focus on a subject I covered here last year: shifts in policies and practices that can give Caribbean coral reefs a chance despite a host of threats ranging from climate change to invasive lionfish to the pollution and fishing impacts that often accompany rapid coastal development.

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.

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

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

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.

The reef is facing a World Heritage downgrade from UNESCO this year due to concerns about rampant coastal development proposed in the region, particularly port, gas and coal operations.

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.»

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.

Continued coastal development may influence felid numbers and distribution, increase terrestrial pathogens in freshwater runoff, and alter disease dynamics at the human - animal - environment interface.

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.

California has some of the world's toughest coastal development regulations.

Unfortunately, attraction to the coast and ocean has lured us into building coastal development too close to the sea.

The Resilient Coasts project creates a forum for those players to build smart coastal development into their strategies and bottom line.

Curaçao has some of the healthiest reefs in the Caribbean, and that is not because of marine reserves, that's not because of strong pollution controls, it's not because coastal development hasn't happened,» Johnson says in the film.

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.

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.

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.

Mangroves provide at least US $ 1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services, which include: supporting fisheries by providing important spawning grounds for commercial fish species; filtering pollutants and contaminants from coastal waters and contributing to healthy coastal marine water quality; and protecting coastal development and communities against storms, floods and erosion *.

When a taciturn handyman with a fondness for vodka finds his home targeted for an ambitious coastal development by the town's greedy mayor, a nasty stand - off ensues that will have tragic and unforeseen consequences.

The commission, which oversees coastal development, unanimously approved a deal that calls for the owners to fix damage to land they developed without permission and to transfer 36 acres (14.5 hectares) of coastal property to Santa Barbara County.

The Banyan Tree, which opened in the lavish Mayakoba coastal development in March 2009, upped the opulence ante with 107 private stand - alone villas (the... Read More

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.

Lowe and Gregory said this leaves society with the uncomfortable task of undertaking coastal development with resilience in mind, using planning strategies that can flex as new insights emerge.

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.

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

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:

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.

That problem, the experts said yesterday in a statement, is an ongoing «lemming - like march to the sea» in the form of unabated coastal development in vulnerable places, and in the lack of changes in government policies and corporate and individual behavior that are driving the trend.

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

See also what the International Coral Reef Intitiative says: «Overfishing, pollution and coastal development top the list of chronic stressors.»