Sentences with phrase «increasing coastal population»

A: There is a huge upward trend in hurricane damage in the U.S., but all or almost all of this is due to increasing coastal population and building in hurricane - prone areas.

An ever increasing coastal population means that the impact of the storms on humans is much greater since so many people lose their homes and businesses.

With increasing coastal populations, rip currents will continue to be a serious hazard at surf beaches.

«One of them is rising sea levels and the other is increasing coastal populations.

Not exact matches

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.

The increase in population size also seems to have levelled off in the Turku region, whereas the breeding population continues to grow outside large urban areas both in the coastal archipelago and on inland lakes.

They found that all 15 human impacts increased after 1978, even though population growth remained constant, suggesting that economic growth contributed to coastal ecosystem decline.

«The results show that people in coastal areas are more aware of flood threats than those living in inland flood zones, and that populations in inland areas are increasing.

As far as coastal areas are concerned, the pressure from increasing population is dangerous to the marine life, no doubt, and sewage is a big problem.

Flood exposure is increasing in coastal cities owing to growing populations and assets, the changing climate, and subsidence Here we provide a quantification of present and future flood losses in the 136 largest coastal cities.

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.

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.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

However, it was the increase in coastal populations that caused the higher insurance losses.

Ongoing coastal development and population growth are projected to exacerbate the risks resulting from sea - level rise and increases in the severity and frequency of storms and coastal flooding by 2050.

The growth of populations in coastal areas increases vulnerability to tropical storms which could become more intense.

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.

Impacts: Rising sea levels place the Philippines in a particularly vulnerable position, and increase the threat of storm surges that inundate vast coastal regions, threatening their populations who will be forced to migrate en masse if they are to escape the effects of food insecurity and loss of shelter and livelihood that result.

Regardless of whether hurricanes and synoptic storms intensify with warming, sea level rise [22] and increased population and development [23] imply more flooding damage to coastal areas from storm surges.

Regardless of whether hurricanes and synoptic storms intensify with warming, sea level rise and increased population and development imply more flooding damage to coastal areas from storm surges.

These risks are three-fold: the increased number of events like floods and cyclones; droughts in some parts of the country and in long - term effects of coastal erosion affecting a large portion of the population.

The poor condition of corals of the Florida Keys over the last three decades results from a combination of many factors, including effects of human population through coastal development, overfishing, ship groundings, and water quality degradation from terrestrial, marine, and atmospheric pollution (including temperature increases).

Unlike most coastal areas of the former United States, the population of the archipelago has dramatically increased despite the 200 foot rise in sea level over the past 60 years.

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.

A recent example of misreporting are the «scientific» news stories based on a study's press release that increased ocean acidification, presumably from human CO2 emissions, was dissolving the poor coastal starfish population.

I realise that you're not comparing to a fixed baseline (because you account for increased population and investment in the affected coastal areas), but Dr. Pielke can you answer regarding whether the costs of adaptation are fully accounted?

Having downplayed some of the more troubling elements of the scientific consensus — and simply dismissed the possibility of more dramatic changes that are currently being debated — Lomborg then seizes on one item in the WMO statement in particular — «The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cyclones has been largely caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions» — and runs with it.

Between 1970 and 2010 coastal counties increased population density by 39 percent (excluding Alaska).

Growing population and wealth in exposed coastal locations could result in increased economic and social damage, both in developing and developed countries (Pielke et al., 2005; Box 7.4).