Sentences with phrase «increased coastal hazards»
However, Zhejiang has been hit by increased coastal hazards over the past few years.
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He notes that certain coastal and seafloor shapes can amplify tsunamis, increasing the hazard at some sites.
«In any coastal area there's extra value in property, [but] climate change, insofar as it increases risks for those properties from any specific set of hazards — like flooding and storm surge — will decrease value.»
With increasing coastal populations, rip currents will continue to be a serious hazard at surf beaches.
The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.
It highlights several implications for this sector, including altered seasonality, desertification and floods, damages caused by increased incidence of natural hazards, coastal erosion and loss of beach areas, and loss of natural and archeological attractions.
Through the use of data, visualization, citizen engagement, and simulations, you can help people understand their exposure to coastal inundation hazards and their increased vulnerability due to population increase and sea level rise.
And for those millions in the low - lying coastal cities — Rotterdam on the North Sea coast, Venice in the Adriatic, Piraeus in the Aegean and Istanbul on the Bosphorus — the hazard could increase a hundredfold.
Nicholls et al. [11] tested scenario - driven variations of this «migration factor» with values ranging between one and two and assumed coastward migration to potentially offset falling population trends beyond 2050 for A1 and B1 Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES), resulting in a net increase of population exposed to coastal hazards.