Sentences with phrase «effect on coastal communities»

``... To mitigate its effect on coastal communities, Interior communities; how it deals with water, subsistence and traditional ways of life.»

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Leading this research, Dr Katya Popova, from the National Oceanography Centre, said «Oil spills can have a devastating effect on the marine environment and on coastal communities.

Organizers hope the strategy to mobilize a local community will catch on as more and more coastal towns face the effects of climate change and the need to protect their shorelines.

We incubated a natural diatom community from coastal New Zealand waters in a short - term incubation experiment using a factorial matrix of temperature and CO2, and measured effects on community structure.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

A recent World Bank study on the effects of sea level rise estimated that a minimum of 57 million people would be displaced by a 1 - meter rise in sea level and many coastal cities and communities would be at significant risk.

1) Abstract «Such changes could have significant ramifications for global sea level, the ocean thermohaline circulation, native coastal communities, and commercial activities, as well as effects on the global surface energy and moisture budgets, atmospheric and oceanic circulations, and geosphere - biosphere feedbacks.