Sentences with phrase «coastal development in»

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

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.

Here we develop relationships between cumulative carbon emissions and long - term sea - level commitment and explore implications for the future of coastal developments in the United States.

UN IPCC Exposed: «Dozens» of instances where WWF reports have been cited as the sole authority for contentious claims, including one about coastal developments in Latin America» http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/not-one-but-two-and-counting.html

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Critics have said the program provides a misguided tax subsidy to coastal and river valley property owners, encouraging development in flood - prone, often environmentally sensitive areas such as wetlands.

Sonic's drive - in development aims to push the chain to establish a wider coastal presence, with expansion opportunities including California and New York.

Meanwhile, development projects such as marinas and residential buildings constructed in California's estuaries have pushed stingrays out of their traditional habitats and into coastal waters, where the rays provide easy food for baby white sharks.

Developments in cities and coastal resorts are currently attracting the most investment.

Pushing for coastal drilling: In their energy plan, the B.C. Liberals promise to work «to lift the federal moratorium on offshore exploration and development and reiterate the intention to simultaneously lift the provincial moratorium.»

Creation of the wildlife sanctuary, situated between scenic Route 1A and Plum Island Sound, protects vulnerable coastal land from development and ensures the public will be able to explore and enjoy one of the most beautiful salt marsh and adjoining upland habitats in the state.

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

Despite hurricane - related flooding in coastal areas of the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there is no reason to slow down residential waterfront development.

«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.

«An increase in petroleum tankers would pose a direct threat to coastal fish and wildlife, local drinking water, the safety of waterfront communities and economic development in our beautiful region,» said Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, a Hudson Valley Democrat.

«An increase in petroleum tankers would pose a direct threat to coastal fish and wildlife, local drinking water, the safety of waterfront communities, and economic development in our beautiful region.»

The awards are designed to support inter-disciplinary, collaborative research projects in coastal ecology which have the potential for technology development.

Cost aside, wetland experts caution that unless mangrove restoration is coupled with sustainable development in coastal communities, restoration work could be set back or undone.

Still, it was only in the 19th century that the idea of New York as a limitless proposition led to the extensive development of coastal areas.

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.»

London researcher Rachel Lowe, Ph.D., led the development of the model that is based on 2016 climate conditions when El Nino was present in the urban coastal city of Machala, Ecuador, an area where these mosquito - borne viruses are most prevalent.

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 theIn 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 thein effect, suffocate them.

A 1,400 - acre swath of salt flats along the western edge of San Francisco Bay has become the latest site for a development dispute that promises to become increasingly common in coastal U.S. cities: Whether new waterside growth makes sense when sea levels are rising

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.

In one coastal region it might be flooding, in another it might be development, pollution or overfishing,» explains co-author Lawrence C. HamiltoIn one coastal region it might be flooding, in another it might be development, pollution or overfishing,» explains co-author Lawrence C. Hamiltoin another it might be development, pollution or overfishing,» explains co-author Lawrence C. Hamilton.

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.

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.

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

BUT no effort to slow development in coastal area's or more seriously, ration gas and energy.

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.

The first two working groups, announced on 24 September, focus on using natural defenses to reduce the risk of coastal disasters and balancing infrastructure development and conservation in the western Amazon.

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.

«Policymakers in several countries, especially in coastal cities, are aware of the issue to some extent, but overall awareness on options to address sea - level rise is much [more] limited,» said Ancha Srinivasan, principal climate change specialist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.

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.

Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Andy Mack said his office gets asked if there would be demand for leases in the coastal plain all the time, and he believes there would be strong demand if the region was opened up for development.

Hence, in conclusion, the authors stated that beach loss due to SLR is an urgent issue that must be addressed through the development of better coastal management strategies to combat beach loss.

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.

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.

«We found more urban development in the inland flood zones than the coastal areas between 2000 - 2011, which is a worrisome trend.

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 researchers compiled urban development, flood hazard and census data and overlaid it on a map of the U.S.. Although their analysis shows that Americans in general have become more aware of the risk of floods over the 10 - year study period, the researchers identified several U.S. hot spots where urban development has grown in coastal flood zones including New York City and Miami.

The agency oversees most of the development along 1,100 miles in the state's coastal zone.

They studied development trends from 2001 to 2011 and found that urban development has declined in coastal flood zones in general across the U.S.. However, development in flood zones in inland counties has grown.

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.

In addition, dozens of coastal overwintering sites have already been lost due to urban, ex-urban, and — to a lesser extent — agricultural development over the past decades.

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.

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.

Strategically designed and implemented field projects will demonstrate the viability of blue carbon, facilitate the development of practical, science - based methodologies and build local and national capacity to protect and manage coastal ecosystems and their myriad ecosystem services in blue carbon - rich countries.