Sentences with phrase «own coastal zones»

In developing the National OCS Program, which has also been known as a Five Year Program, the Secretary is required to achieve an appropriate balance among the potential for environmental impacts, for discovery of oil and gas, and for adverse effects on the coastal zone.

Actually, prawn cultivation has spread all over the coastal zones in Asia.

In southern Thailand, the vast coastal zones are now used for prawn and shrimp cultivation for export.

Workshop on «Towards better integration of R4D for improved food production systems in the coastal zone of Bangladesh»

Previous to Mass Audubon, Clayton held leadership positions in coastal zone management and wetlands and tidelands protection with what is now the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.

The state's highest court will hear arguments tomorrow on whether Indian Point, the nuclear power plant 40 miles from New York City, needs a new state coastal zone permit.

Groundwater that seeps into the coastal zone beneath the ocean's surface — termed submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)-- is an important source of fresh water and nutrients to nearshore coral reefs throughout the globe.

This is very different than far more common quakes plaguing coastal zones like California, caused by the constantly shifting outskirts of the continent's plate.

Reconstruction in the coastal zone has unintentionally exacerbated this segregation: now many lower - income newcomers rent rebuilt houses that higher - income tsunami survivors do not wish to occupy.

But it was also reported that there were many who did willingly move back to the coastal zones.

States must sign off on environmental issues related to coastal zone management and pollution in their waters.

«The colliding forces of human fertility, submerging coastal zones, residential retreat, and impediments to inland resettlement is a huge problem.

Beyond sea level rise, low - elevation coastal zones in many countries face intensifying storm surges that will push sea water further inland.

Most of the coastal zone in Yala was protected by sand dunes rising over 25 feet.

However, the fragility of the coastal zone, Najjar said, could be cause for concern.

The team's findings provide one possible mechanism for an observed increase in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon in the surface waters of North America and Europe during the last few decades, and have implications for management of water quality in coastal zones worldwide.

Coastal altimetry, which provides detailed wave and sea level data in the coastal zone captured by specialist instruments called radar altimeters on board satellites, is at the heart of the project and scientists from NOC have been at the cutting - edge of this technique.

During the 1500s about 250,000 Finns inhabited the coastal zone of what was then Swedish territory.

Topics of discussion regarding science for integrated management of coastal and shelf processes included natural variability of the coastal zone in space and time, experimental management, potential roles of different species, assemblages and habitats in coastal systems, effects of changing nutrient regimes, and perturbations of food - web dynamics.

More than 100 marine benthic calcifying taxa, from the coastal zone to the deep sea, from tropical, temperate and polar regions, were included in this comprehensive study.

It is big, and it is growing, and that trend is all the more worrisome in light of rapid population growth in the coastal zones of the world and our heavy dependence on nearshore waters for economics, nutrition and recreation.

Effects of canals ripple across the wetlands Eventually, some 50,000 wells were permitted in the coastal zone.

Leader of the US delegation to the summit, William Reilly, called the oceans «a US priority» and gave strong backing for a high - level international meeting to discuss worsening pollution of coastal zones.

«And the greatest destructive forces of tropical cyclones occurs on coastal zone habitats.»

«Philippine coastal zone research reveals tropical cyclone disruption of nutrient cycling: How cycads weather the storms.»

Though relatively small in comparison to the open ocean, the coastal zones are where an extremely large amount of the carbon dioxide is exchanged between air and water.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

Their findings show that even under the lowest growth assumptions, the global population in low - elevation coastal zones could rise by more than 40 percent, from 625 million in 2000 to 879 million in 2030.

In the study by Keiko Udo and Yuriko Takeda, published in Coastal Engineering Journal on 29th May 2017, the authors projected beach losses in the 77 coastal zones throughout Japan caused by future SLR (2081 to 2100) relative to a reference period (1986 to 2005) using 21 CMIP5 models, and constructed a beach - loss curve for SLR averaged along the entire coastline of Japan.

In a paper published recently in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from several Western institutes estimated the number of people living in low - elevation coastal zones, as well as the scale of the population at risk from one - in -100-year storm surge events, by using scenario - based projections.

The increase in frequency of these events that are today considered exceptional will likely push existing coastal protection structures beyond their design limits, leaving a large part of Europe's coastal zones exposed to flooding, according to the study's authors.

Dr Brown emphasised that: «Over the last two and half decades, our scientific understanding of climate change and sea - level rise, and how it will affect coastal zones has greatly increased.

They focused on climate change and sea - level rise impacts in the coastal zone, and examined ways of how to better manage and cope with climate change.

Combined with other calamities, we find ourselves in a two - front war: Fire and heat that ravage inland communities, and massively destructive storms that damage coastal zones.

In cases of coastal zones, adaptive practices like inappropriate coastal - defense schemes and coastal - habitat conversions are maladaptive.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

The agency oversees most of the development along 1,100 miles in the state's coastal zone.

«The evidence suggests that human activities in coastal zones will continue to have an important impact on global carbon cycling,» Bauer said.

New research suggests that human activity could be increasing the movement of carbon from land to rivers, estuaries and the coastal zone indicating that large quantities of anthropogenic carbon may be hidden in regions not previously considered.

(D) establishes programs for the long - term monitoring of the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the ocean and coastal zone and to assess and adjust, when necessary, such adaptive management strategies;

(2) include, in the case of a coastal State, a strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the coastal zone that --

(E) establishes performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and

Instead, they are aiming to gather data for studies of the coastal zone.

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Biography: Amélie took a postdoctoral research fellowship at the ARC CoE Coral Reef Studies in mid-2012 in the Conservation Planning Program working on the NERP (National Environmental Research Program) project «Conservation planning for a changing coastal zone» led by Prof. Bob Pressey.

Her postdoc work includes scenario planning, land use change modelling, impact assessments, and development of conservation goals and priorities for coastal protection and restoration for the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.

They knew that as soon as Irma passed the coast and the winds switched directions, all of the water slurped out of the coastal zones would be forced back into the bays — and then some.

Applied research and public policy analysis focused on marine pollution, coastal zone management and coastal economies, coastal hazard management, shore protection, recreational fisheries, and development of nonmarket good methods.

Integrate coral reef management with land - use and coastal zone planning and practices to reduce pollutant inputs (notably, ammonium compounds, nitrogen and sulphur oxides) that increase the acidity of local waters.

Indicator species for interpreting environmental variability in the Antarctic coastal zone.