Sentences with phrase «future coastal development»

The following outlines essential elements of effective coastal management plans and state climate change adaptation plans, highlighting key criteria to guide future coastal development and management practices.

«This research underscores the necessity for future coastal developments to consider the adverse effects of sediment on fish and reef ecosystems,» adds Dr Wenger.

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«Our coastal development needs to withstand extreme conditions, which are likely to occur again in the future.»

Professor Nicholls says: «This long - term perspective is however a challenge to bring about, as coastal development tends to be dominated by short - term interests of, for example, real - estate and tourism companies, which prefer to build directly at the waterfront with little thought about the future.»

The commission abandoned the benchmark earlier this year, but a coastal development group whose chairman rejects human - related climate change pressed for legislation to inhibit similar standards in the future.

How effectively we manage fishing, coastal development, pollution, trawling and shipping will play an important part in determining the future resilience of the Great Barrier Reef.

While it is true that climate change poses an enormous risk for the future because of coral bleaching and more acidic oceans, the fact is that reefs protected from overfishing, excessive coastal development and pollution are more resilient to these stresses.

Here we develop relationships between cumulative carbon emissions and long - term sea - level commitment and explore implications for the future of coastal developments in the United States.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18

AER led the development of an innovative, broadly applicable methodology for analyzing future coastal floods.

His colleague Professor Nicholls adds: «This long - term perspective is however a challenge to bring about, as coastal development tends to be dominated by short - term interests of, for example, real estate and tourism companies, which prefer to build directly on the waterfront with little thought about the future.»