Sentences with phrase «coastal hazards»

Island process modelling / impact assessment - to determine impacts of coastal hazards and climate change on an island by island basis.

However, exposure estimates give an incomplete picture of coastal risks to human settlements because they do not consider existing or future adaptation measures that protect the exposed population and assets against coastal hazards.

The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.

The long - term data from the UNSW program has been crucial in understanding how climate change is changing Australia's coasts, recently showing that El Niño and La Niña cycles will intensify coastal hazards, leading to changes in behaviour of storms, extreme coastal flooding and erosion in populated regions across the Pacific.

However, Zhejiang has been hit by increased coastal hazards over the past few years.

The study, published in Nature Geoscience, was led by Patrick Barnard and includes a long list of contributors, among them CIRC researcher Peter Ruggiero, whose work has focused on preparing Northwest residents for coastal hazards.

The subject categories include coastal hazards, diving safety, global warming, harmful algae, marine careers, seafood safety / foodborne illnesses, and, perhaps most interesting to teachers, the education section.

«However, utilising the many years of data we were able pull together in this study enabled us to definitively identify how the major climate drivers affect coastal hazards across the Pacific.

Scientists are also confident that heating of the deep oceans and melting of land ice will lead to continued sea level rise, which will heighten the risk of coastal flooding and the severity of coastal hazards during stormy episodes.

The oft - cited potential coastal hazard is in fact pretty illusory, since most coastal waters are iron - replete, and adding further iron therefore produces no new plankton growth at all.

For the first time during the hurricane, PRSN took over as the tsunami warning focal point for Puerto Rico on the west side of the island, acting as the central point of contact for tsunami and other coastal hazards.

Adaptation planning - to determine the best suite of adaptation measures to address impacts of coastal hazards and climate change at the community level.

The unfortunate result is that lower - income residents are now disproportionately exposed to coastal hazards.

«The human deaths and the powerful landscape - altering destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy are a stark reminder that our nation must become more resilient to coastal hazards,» said Kevin Gallagher, associate director for Core Science Systems at USGS.

Since the last relatively substantive meeting on a new climate treaty, in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, there has been a steady stream of statements about the urgent need to «seal the deal» next month in Copenhagen, providing a firm new treaty curbing emissions from rich countries and emerging powers and buttressing poor ones against climatic and coastal hazards.

It's worth providing one example to illustrate the power of factors other than climate change to boost exposure to climate and coastal hazards.

The three main sections describe planned regulations, rules and standards aimed at cutting releases of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, heavy vehicles and buildings; a suite of new steps to cut vulnerability to climate and coastal hazards; and a fresh summary of international initiatives the administration plans to pursue with other countries.

To me, this is still very much the beginning of the beginning in efforts to forge a durable human relationship with the climate system — one that limits our adverse influence and boosts human capacity to deal with climatic and coastal hazards.

There are plenty of sticking points that could lead to a walkout or other roadblock, particular relating to rising demands from poorer nations that the world's industrial powers make good on a 2009 promise to have $ 100 billion a year in public and private assistance flowing to vulnerable poor countries starting in 2020, both for enhancing access to clean energy and cutting vulnerability to climatic and coastal hazards.

And I see opportunities to build, locally and nationally, from concern about vulnerability to climate and coastal hazards to the challenge of moving beyond widespread dependence on coal and oil.

While agreeing with her on the need to pursue policies that can cut emissions of greenhouse gases, I'd counter that the longer humans continue congregating and building in regions known to be vulnerable to climate and coastal hazards, the losses will rise, regardless of emissions trajectories.

When I do that, aggressive curbs on carbon dioxide emissions fall well behind the immediacy of filling the world's energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

When I do that, the importance of curbing carbon dioxide emissions falls well behind * the immediacy of energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

Also, while poor nations see the amounts as insufficient, powerful countries, including China (which long hid behind its status as a developing country), have pledged money and technical aid to help shield the world's most vulnerable communities from climatic and coastal hazards.

The parade of natural disasters in 2017, once again, proved that cities, with their expanding infrastructure and growing populations, continue to be vulnerable to acute impacts from drought, earthquakes, flooding, land subsidence, coastal hazards, and -LSB-...]

NOAA's Coastal Resources Center has developed Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk, an online, three - hour course where participants learn how to characterize community exposure to coastal hazards, and to assess how plans and policies already on the books can be used to jump - start adaptation strategies.

Through the use of data, visualizations, and simulations, you can help people understand their exposure to coastal hazards and their increased vulnerability due to population increase and sea level rise.

Nicholls et al. [11] tested scenario - driven variations of this «migration factor» with values ranging between one and two and assumed coastward migration to potentially offset falling population trends beyond 2050 for A1 and B1 Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES), resulting in a net increase of population exposed to coastal hazards.

Jacob, K., V. Gornitz, and C. Rosenzweig, 2007: Vulnerability of the New York City metropolitan area to coastal hazards, including sea - level rise: Inferences for urban coastal risk management and adaptation policies.

The Objective of this project is to improve the resilience of coastal populations, settlements, and ecosystems in areas exposed to coastal hazards.»

Sea - level rise is expected to exacerbate inundation, storm surge, erosion and other coastal hazards, thus threatening vital infrastructure, settlements and facilities that support the livelihood of island communities.