Sentences with phrase «coastal infrastructure»

These are generally consultancy work, advising governments and companies on how to build and adapt coastal infrastructure.

Her research aims to develop new insights into the behavior of tsunamis near shore and onshore and how to make coastal infrastructure more resistant to their devastating effects.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D - R.I.) urged his colleagues in a congressional Appropriations Committee hearing to bolster coastal infrastructure in light of the world's newest iceberg and its environmental implications.

He had also sketched out New York's post-Superstorm Sandy plans to fortify coastal infrastructure.

Rossetto's research aims to understand how tsunamis behave as they sweep ashore and how to make coastal infrastructure more resistant to their devastating effects.

Price shocks, supply disruptions, dislocations, the rising costs of urban coastal infrastructure and remediation is the shape of things to come.

Although the United States has significant capacity to adapt to climate change, it will pose challenges for civil society and DoD alike, particularly in light of the nation's extensive coastal infrastructure.

This would help clarify (e.g. for policy makers) the degree to which coastal infrastructure (e.g. sewerage systems, petro refineries, nuclear fleet), all of which in themselves could give rise to serious issues under compromise conditions, may require SOC - informed protection strategies.

At less than 1 ˚C we are on the way to triggering a multi-metre sea - level rise that will devastate coastal infrastructure, delta peasant - farming communities and some of the world's biggest cities.

«Thermal expansion of the oceans... melting of continental ice shelves and glaciers has increased global sea levels... the rate is accelerating... rising sea levels increase the risk of flooding... storm surges... decreasing the protective life span of coastal infrastructures such as Dutch flood dikes or the Thames barrier... Sea - level rise also increases the damage potential from geophysical events.»

High tides linked to the full moon since the weekend caused minor flooding from Florida to New England, underscoring the need for improved coastal infrastructure at a time of faster rising seas.

To bring you up to speed here, Hunter et al had written some research in the journal Ocean Engineering discussing how high coastal infrastructure should be built in the future to avoid increasing the risk of flooding.

The National Hurricane Center estimates that storm surges of five to eight feet and waves of up to 30 feet could erode beaches vital to the state's tourism economy, and threaten coastal infrastructure including homes and highways.

Sea level rise also threatens freshwater supplies and ecosystem services such as natural water filtration, as well as human coastal infrastructure.

Similar impacts are expected in the eastern Caribbean, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai, where coastal infrastructure, population and economic activities could be vulnerable to sea - level rise (Lewsey et al., 2004; Sherbinin et al., 2006).

Cuomo wants to fortify coastal infrastructure and to replace and repair 104 older bridges statewide.

Officials should also consider relocating some coastal infrastructure to higher ground while converting currently inhabited areas into nature zones, the task force says.

He says Alaska will need much more coastal infrastructure to handle increased shipping and other commercial activities like offshore oil and gas development.

Societal concerns about sea level rise originate from the potential impact of regional and coastal sea level change and associated changes in extremes on coastlines around the world, including potential shoreline recession, loss of coastal infrastructure, natural resources and biodiversity, and in the worst case, displacement of communities and migration of environmental refugees.

And a lack of coastal infrastructure, such as deepwater ports, means that spills of the heavy fuel oil that powers most vessels could wreak havoc on both ecosystems and reputations, because clean - up missions would have to set out from much farther away and would take much longer to be effective.

High tides and storm surges riding on ever - higher seas are more dangerous to people and coastal infrastructure.

Under the worst - case scenario investigated, if pollution continues unabated, and if seas respond to ongoing warming by rising at the fastest rates considered likely, sea levels could rise more than 4 feet this century alone, wiping out coastal infrastructure and driving communities inland.

At present, pipelines have been losing out on investment to large, expensive LNG plants that require alot of coastal infrastructure and are good for only one thing: compressing, uncompressing and shipping LNG.

And those might be the places where we don't have the early warning systems and we don't have the coastal infrastructure to deal with those effects.

Urgent action is needed to build resilience through economic development to risks to agriculture, water resources, coastal infrastructure, and human health.

Other projected outcomes involve threats to public health, water availability, agricultural productivity (particularly in low - latitude developing countries), and coastal infrastructure, though some benefits may be seen at some times and places.

China is well aware of the potential harm a warming climate will present to the coastal infrastructure that has produced their economic advancement, and to their ability to feed their population.

Third, Tickell tells us how the 80m sea - level rise would wipe out all the world's coastal infrastructure and much of the world's farmland — «undoubtedly» causing billions to die.

Sea level rise is likely to devastate infrastructure along the coastlines, but it will also have a significant impact on freshwater and the economies that are tied to coastal infrastructure, which go far inland in many countries.