Sentences with phrase «coastal settlements»

Visitors can learn about traditional Hawaiian culture through the partially restored remains of this ancient Hawaiian coastal settlement.
It was considered to be important at the time that the few coastal settlements needed a proper road in order to support a growing timber industry and tourism.
At one time all rubbish from ships was simply thrown into the ocean and it was normal practice for coastal settlements to pump raw sewage directly into the sea.
Hong Kong is famous for its junk ships that traverse the harbour, and small kai - to ferries that serve remote coastal settlements.
deaths in capital cities due to heat waves; and large - scale relocation of coastal settlements and infrastructure.
These include such actions as driving species to extinction and adding long - lived greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in ways that have few impacts now, but could disrupt climate patterns, ocean ecosystems and coastal settlements in decades to come.
It will be important to keep our eye on at least four zones: low - lying coastal settlements which are especially vulnerable to rising sea levels; farm regions which are dependent on rivers fed by glacier melt and snowmelt; sub-humid and arid regions which are likely to experience greater drought frequency; and humid areas in Southeast Asia vulnerable to changes in monsoon patterns.
They traded fruit and cotton grown inland for seafood caught by fishermen in smaller coastal settlements.
Situated in Prevelly Park (Margaret Rivers coastal settlement — tem kilometres west of the town) and right next door to world famous surf beaches, yet only minutes walk to safe swimming beaches, these houses will warmly welcome you to relax in their private, quiet surroundings.
The Ocean provided the first connections with coastal settlements that mostly sprang up for commercial reasons.
Sea - level rise due to both climate change and non-climatic factors threatens coastal settlements, infrastructure, and ecosystems.
Understanding the magnitude and pattern by which the frequency of current flood levels increase is important for developing more resilient coastal settlements, particularly since flood risk management (e.g. infrastructure, insurance, communications) is often tied to estimates of flood return periods.
UWA research has concluded that large - scale solar plants in the wheatbelt could power the states populous coastal settlements.
Globally, coastal populations are expected to increase rapidly, while coastal settlements are at increased risk of climate change - influenced sea - level rise (Chapter 6).
To gather data in these remote coastal settlements, researchers employed local residents to oversea the daily turtle catch.
Before 2011, Japan was considered to be the best prepared nation on earth to withstand a large tsunami on its coasts, with structures specifically designed to afford sufficient protection to coastal settlements and critical infrastructure.
The coastal settlements at Cinque Terre are accessible only on foot, by rail or sea, and this is one of the less - visited parts of Liguria.
Named after the broad cliffs that dominate the south - eastern skyline of town, this coastal settlement on the shores of the Bluff Harbour lagoon is built around a neatly ordered network of streets lined by manicured lawns and a patchwork of bungalows.
On the first point, a really remarkably new study, published online in Geographical Reviews last month, builds a robust estimate of sea ice conditions across the Arctic month by month from January 1850, the tail end of the «little ice age,» through 2013 by consolidating vast amounts of ice data from ship captains, military flights, coastal settlements and other sources.
Climate variability and change could result in low - lying lands being inundated, with resultant impacts on coastal settlements (high confidence).
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