Sentences with phrase «coastal planning»

A new immersive visualization allows people to make informed decisions on coastal plans by experiencing changes to an area through a first - person perspective.

«Virtual coasts improve understanding of possible coastal planning outcomes: Geovisualisations of coastal areas help people to see the outcomes of management strategies and impacts of proposed developments on the marine environment.»

But the piece is as much about coastal planning and policy as science, which widens the range of voices that are suitable.

Ultimately, the findings result in four key recommendations: (1) Advance stronger state laws and policies that discourage coastal armoring, (2) Ensure local coastal planning mechanisms are used to incorporate sustainable adaptation strategies and to discourage armoring, (3) Promote insurance policies and post-disaster redevelopment policies that do not promote risky development, and (4) Pursue relocation and retreat on public and private lands.

For example different models predict anywhere from one meter to five meters of sea level rise — a difference of 13 feet — over the next century, complicating coastal planning and jeopardizing lives and property.

But, rapid change in the behavior of parts of the Antarctic ice sheet might cause much greater rise than is often included in coastal planning.

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.

«In the hurricane planning we've done, the coastal planning we've done, and the green building codes and the other structural changes, we've made significant changes in the requirements of how we build in lower - lying areas and particularly changes to particular projects coming down the pipeline as those conversations were going on,» Quinn said.

So I took another postdoc, at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which led to my return to my alma mater — Technion — where today I am an assistant professor teaching and researching marine and coastal planning.

The new defences at Mappleton are, says Pethick, «a classic example of a confrontational, small - scale approach to coastal planning on a coastline characterised by its large - scale problems».

A number of states uses our semi-empirical method in coastal planning, e.g. the Netherlands and the US states California and North Carolina, and our results have entered the recommendations of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Marine Protected Areas, Ocean international policy, marine / coastal conservation, coastal planning, marine wildlife management

These rates of relative sea level rise reflect actual observations and must be accounted for in any coastal planning or engineering applications.

Tundi specializes in coastal planning and assessment, marine protected areas, fisheries management and ocean zoning, and has published widely in these fields.