Sentences with phrase «lying coastal settlements»

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Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England and is the largest settlement in Dorset, lying directly east from the Jurassic Coast — a 95 - mile World Heritage Site.

Climate variability and change could result in low - lying lands being inundated, with resultant impacts on coastal settlements (high confidence).

Sea - level changes are of special significance, not only for the low - lying atoll islands but for many high islands where settlements, infrastructure and facilities are concentrated in the coastal zone.

In today's climate - change era, the only available housing such migrants are likely to find will be in vast and expanding shantytowns (or «informal settlements,» as they're euphemistically called), often located in floodplains and low - lying coastal areas exposed to storm surges and sea - level rise.