Sentences with phrase «coastal infrastructure more»

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.

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But like most coastal cities in Mozambique, Pemba suffers from a lack of infrastructure — making natural disasters much more destructive.

It makes low lying property and infrastructure more vulnerable at a time when developers are pumping money into coastal cities and towns.»

«We all have to work to innovate, test, monitor, and develop a better suite of options that includes more natural and hybrid infrastructure alternatives for providing coastal protection to communities around the world.»

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

What's more, sea levels are rising, elevating storm surge and increasing the amount of coastal flooding — and the amount of electricity infrastructure at risk — when future storms arrive.

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.

Developing countries are often more sensitive to climate risks, such as drought or coastal flooding, because of their greater economic reliance on climate ‐ sensitive primary activities, and because of inadequate infrastructure, finance, and other enablers of successful adaptation and mitigation.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

As climate change brings more frequent and intense storms and rising sea levels, storm surge is a growing danger in many coastal areas for people, property and infrastructure, and countries are unprepared for the impacts, according to new research.

Having downplayed some of the more troubling elements of the scientific consensus — and simply dismissed the possibility of more dramatic changes that are currently being debated — Lomborg then seizes on one item in the WMO statement in particular — «The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cyclones has been largely caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions» — and runs with it.

The importance of planning ahead with water processing infrastructure, water recycling and conservation measures, and habitat conservation couldn't be more apparent here, and for other coastal areas bound to be impacted by the warming we've already committed ourselves to thus far.

Richer populations are assumed to be more likely to invest in coastal defences and some coastal communities will be less at risk than others, yet the cost of what Dr Hauer calls «adaptive infrastructure» in the US could reach $ 1 trillion.