Sentences with phrase «risks in coastal communities»

Higher average sea levels due to climate change will lead to higher storm surges and elevated flooding risks in coastal communities world - wide, even if the intensity or frequency of storms remains unchanged.

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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.

«Coastal resiliency and disaster risk reduction have become a national priority, and healthy coastal ecosystems play an important role in building resilient communities,» said Holly Bamford, Ph.D., acting assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management at NOAA, and co-author of the study.

These can be incredibly powerful tools for understanding how climate change will likely shape both industry and coastal community risk exposure in the years ahead.

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

In a related and creditable move, the White House and some partners today (including the Thriving Earth Exchange) announced the launch of «Resilience Dialogues» — a way for communities at risk from climatic or coastal threats to connect with experts to reduce their vulnerability.

The National Research Council, the nation's top independent science advisory body, has issued «Reducing Coastal Risks on the East and Gulf Coasts» — a smart report that should be read by anyone — particularly elected officials — in a coastal community.

... We've got to remember that the risks our current dependence on oil holds for our environment and our coastal communities is not the only cost involved in our dependence on these fossil fuels.

In the face of higher sea levels and more intense storms, coastal communities face greater risk of rapid beach erosion from destructive storms like the intense nor» easter of April 2007 that caused this damage.

(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

But while adapting buildings in coastal communities and upgrading coastal defences can significantly reduce adverse impacts of sea level rise and storm surges, they can not eliminate these risks, especially as sea levels will continue to rise over time.

Sea level rise, combined with coastal storms, has increased the risk of erosion, storm surge damage, and flooding for coastal communities, especially along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic seaboard, and in Alaska.

In some cases (e.g. mass coral bleaching and mortality), projected increases will eliminate ecosystems, increase risks to food security and the vulnerability of coastal communities.

«Today's report recognizes that the livelihoods of people living in coastal communities, the sustainability of rich natural resources that support our economy and the security of residential, commercial and industrial assets are at great risk if we don't devise and implement plans to protect against, and recover from, the adverse effects associated with climate change.»

A recent World Bank study on the effects of sea level rise estimated that a minimum of 57 million people would be displaced by a 1 - meter rise in sea level and many coastal cities and communities would be at significant risk.

HiRAM's overall success suggests that in the future, it could be used to predict regional tropical cyclone risk for periods ranging from 2 weeks to a couple of months — timescales that could potentially benefit the Gulf of Mexico's coastal communities.

That random rippling sea - level already causes occasional flooding risk to coastal communities, especially when storms push walls of sea - water ahead of them in «surges».

Richer populations are assumed to be more likely to invest in coastal defences and some coastal communities will be less at risk than others, yet the cost of what Dr Hauer calls «adaptive infrastructure» in the US could reach $ 1 trillion.

The expected outputs range from integrating climate change risks into development planning and coastal zoning regulation to diversifying livelihoods to finding more secure sources of water in communities where saline intrusion is a problem (Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation).