Sentences with phrase «for coastal populations»

Creating emergency infrastructure and evacuation plans for coastal populations, hydroponics / aeroponics / hydroculture development to grow food in sheltered environments regardless of climate, and guarding against widespread damage to power systems and communications.

Not exact matches

Major coastal cities typical for job migration are close behind as leaders in the industry, but their success may be due more to a large population and generally successful diversified economy.

The awardee is Carolyn Mostello, a coastal waterbird specialist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mass Wildlife) who has devoted her career to restoring populations of federally endangered roseate terns and other island nesting species in Buzzards Bay.

Mass Audubon has an extensive history of protecting coastal waterbird populations; waterbird conservation was the impetus for the formation of the organization in 1896.

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

To compute how additional pollution from ships increases risk of disease for exposed populations, especially those living in coastal communities or along major shipping lanes and far inland in some nations like India, the team incorporated important underlying health information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma Network.

This year's event, while it caused a drop in chlorophyll primarily along the equator, was much less severe for the coastal phytoplankton population.

Only the investigation of population - wide effects makes it possible to draw conclusions for coastal ecosystems.»

«By quantifying where and to what extent habitats reduce the exposure of vulnerable populations and property, our analyses are, to the best of our knowledge, the first to target where conservation and restoration of coastal habitats are most critical for protecting lives and property on a national scale,» the paper says.

The estimates were based on information including World Bank data for trash generated per person in all nations with a coastline, coastal population density, the amount of plastic waste countries produce and the quality of their waste - management practices.

It is big, and it is growing, and that trend is all the more worrisome in light of rapid population growth in the coastal zones of the world and our heavy dependence on nearshore waters for economics, nutrition and recreation.

James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies argues that China and India will make this decision out of pure self - interest, since rising sea levels could place large portions of their coastal populations at risk.

To be specific, five Asian countries — China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam — accounted for more than half of the world's population exposed to coastal flooding in 2000 and will maintain the top five positions over the coming decades.

They can for example examine how different populations — such as skrei, Norwegian coastal cod and Baltic Sea cod — compare.

The need for greater education is growing along with coastal population densities and rising sea levels.

In 2010, Till Hanebuth, a geologist at the University of Bremen in Germany, excavated more than a dozen ancient kilns in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigers.

12: Indigenous Peoples for examples of health impacts on vulnerable populations) and of place (floodplains, coastal zones, and urban areas), as well as the resilience of critical public health infrastructure.

Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.

Management strategies for rehabilitation and stock enhancement of coastal shellfisheries; studies of factors controlling recruitment of bivalve populations.

Plugging their data into models that account for the range of plastic waste entering the ocean via different coastal populations, the researchers arrived at their estimated 11.1 billion pieces of coral - entangling plastic.

They help protect areas such as mangrove forests and seagrass beds that act as nurseries for marine animals, as well as human coastal populations.

For example, mangroves are estimated to be worth at least US$ 1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services that support coastal livelihoods and human populations around the world *.

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

The first phase of the Hawk Hill / Battery Construction 129 Restoration and Trail Improvement Project was recently completed with the restoration of approximately six acres of coastal scrub and prairie vegetation, to create improved habitat for declining bird populations and the endangered Mission blue butterfly, and the preservation of the historic resources at Battery Construction 129.

Inland, the Belizean Mayan population handcrafts replicas of ancient petroglyphs while the Garifuna people living in southern coastal villages are known for their small dolls.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

Responding to plans by a real estate developer to displace a local population of hippies and entrenched retirees from the coastal California town of Solana Beach, she created a monarch for the locals to help rally them against the forces that threatened to force them out.

One thing is for sure, unless we address the really serious problem of human infrastructure and population the details of whether it's CO2 or not, or whether the coastal mangrove will suvive, is moot.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

The Arctic Refuge's coastal plain provides the most important land denning habitat for the Beaufort Sea polar bear population.

The raise of the level of the sea, for example, could create situations of extreme gravity when taking into account that a quarter of the world population lives by the sea or very close to it, and that most megacities are located in coastal areas.

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of «climate conflict» and «global warring» that might be set off as greenhouse - driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already - turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

There is good reason to believe that floating wind can not only emulate this, but can facilitate accelerated growth in new markets and regions where securing low - carbon electricity at low cost for energy - intensive coastal populations is a growing priority.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

I think misguided policy plays a role in that cost - benefit judgement that coastal populations make: ie gov» t compensation for losses and insurance premiums underwritten by everyone's else's.

Another major environmental stress for which population growth is directly responsible is degradation of coastal ecosystems.

Think about feeding a population of 9 billion as formerly productive regions become too hot and dry for large scale agriculture, populations have to relocate, sea level causes very large coastal populations to move inland quicker than new high rise housing can be built (but the land is needed for crops) and so on.

Major storm periods and climate forcing in the Western Mediterranean during the Late Holocene Big storm events represent a major risk for populations and infrastructures settled on coastal lowlands.

essay, storm surges from hurricanes and other tropical cyclones have always been a serious problem for coastal - dwellers, and as populations increase, the problem will only become greater in the future.

12: Indigenous Peoples for examples of health impacts on vulnerable populations) and of place (floodplains, coastal zones, and urban areas), as well as the resilience of critical public health infrastructure.

Alexandria is found to require climate - smart urban planning to ensure its growing population does not settle in low - lying coastal areas, as well as early warning systems for natural disasters.

Speaking as one who lives here, the answer is that things will have to get a lot less comfortable for the coastal rim population before they budge.

Building on earlier Turn Down the Heat reports, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day (0.8 °C), 2 °C and 4 °C warming above pre-industrial temperatures on agricultural production, water resources, ecosystem services, and coastal vulnerability for affected populations.

For example, in coastal areas, anomalous temperatures (either warm or cool) can favor one organism in an ecosystem over another, causing populations of one kind of bacteria, algae, or fish to thrive or decline.

For instance, the large sea - level rise (up to 12 m) that would result from the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets would have major impacts on coastal areas, with effects both on biological systems and human populations.

Thus, through the foreseeable future (very optimistically 2085), other factors will continue to outweigh climate change with respect to human welfare as characterized by (a) mortality for hunger, malaria and coastal flooding, and (b) population at risk for waters stress.

Compounding the risk for coastal communities, Asia has more than 90 % of the global population exposed to tropical cyclones.

Small coastal basins that are the primary water source for most communities and essential to Pacific salmon populations have been particularly affected.

CA and Oz have some relevant similarities [climate, water issues, major coastal populations, agriculture, sun, wealth], but CA can't really do anything for coal, whereas Oz might.

Costs of coastal protection versus costs of land - use relocation; potential for movement of populations and infrastructure; also see tropical cyclones above