Sentences with phrase «coastal planners in»
So, too, are coastal planners in Florida, water managers in the arid Southwest, city dwellers from Phoenix to New York, and Native Peoples on tribal lands from Louisiana to Alaska.
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Improving projections for how much ocean levels may change in the future and what that means for coastal communities has vexed researchers studying sea level rise for years, but a new international study that incorporates extreme events may have just given researchers and coastal planners what they need.
Meeting planners love the Ocean House for its convenient location in coastal Rhode Island, flexible meeting space and captivating village setting.
New Jersey is seemingly trying to rebuild its shoreline communities as fast as possible with little thought for the future, politicians in North Carolina have essentially told coastal planners not to take future sea level rise into account, and some places would like to resist or adapt but lack the resources to do so.
Khan, in his research paper, Climate change induced sea level projections for the Pichavaram mangrove region of the Tamilnadu coast, India: A way forward for framing time - based adaptation strategies, looks at how this information can facilitate coastal managers and adaptation planners to frame location - specific and time - based mangrove adaptation strategies to SLR.
The CanVis tool from NOAA's Coastal Services Center creates images of potential coastal changes, letting planners and citizens put changes in perspective before they happen.
At six of the coastal regions most likely to be affected, government planners are only slowly coming to grips with the enormity of the task ahead - and in some cases have done nothing.
This workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of policy makers, transport planners and transport infrastructure managers in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to understand climate change impacts on coastal transport infrastructure and take appropriate adaptation response measures.
Such an overall trend including outlier risks paints a relatively rough picture for coastal city planners in the 1 - 3 decade timeframe.