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.
Part of the problem is that some of the countries with
the largest coastal populations - mostly in Asia - are also developing nations with inadequate infrastructure to deal with all the waste that they generate.
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
coastal provinces of Kiangsu, Chekiang, Fukien, and Kwangtung contain the smallest number of Muslims in modern times, although formerly they had the
largest Muslim
population.
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.
Prompt action is needed most in Asia and Africa where, today,
large parts of the
coastal population are already affected by storm surge flooding.
Malin Pinsky, an ecologist at Rutgers University who studies
population dynamics of
coastal marine species and who was not involved in the research, described the study as significant because of its unusually
large scope, as well as its focus on different fish life stages.
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.
Using the
largest data set in the Northwest Atlantic, we show rapid
large declines in
large coastal and oceanic shark
populations.
The
coastal city of Melbourne also has tons of unique things to do and see, like the Block Arcade, Yarra Valley and Shrine of Remembrance, and with a
large, welcoming
population you'll never feel alone!
Moreover, you will be right in the heart of fabulous Malibu that enjoys near - mythical status thanks to its
large celebrity
population and the incredible beauty of its
coastal mountains, natural coves, wide sweeps of golden sands and epic waves.
[2] The island scrub jay (ISSJ) is closely related to the California scrub jay — the
coastal population found on the adjacent mainland — but differs in being
larger, more brightly colored, and having a markedly stouter bill.
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.
The world economy and
coastal land is closely tied to the survival interests of a
large part of the worlds current
population.
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.
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 most susceptible
populations in these areas were in areas with high levels of poverty, and where
large populations had clustered on marginal land such as flood plains or
coastal regions in cyclone - prone areas.
The move was seen as a necessary countermeasure to widespread
coastal loss and degradation, which had already resulted in over 90 percent of the state's wetlands being lost and in
large fisheries
population declines, among other harmful consequences.
Jenna Jambeck and her colleagues at the University of Georgia found that an incredibly
large amount of plastic waste is mismanaged by the
populations living in
coastal area, and that even a conservative estimate of how much ends up in the sea puts adds up to between 4.8 million to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic.