Sentences with phrase «sea walls»

These considerations may, for example, enter into calculations of how high and how strongly we need to build sea walls in certain places.

The talk now among coastal engineers is of setting back sea walls in a «managed retreat», and of giving the coast back to nature.

And they want the companies to pay for measures such as sea walls to cope with rising sea levels they blame on carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Our knee - jerk response to rising sea levels is to armor the coastline with sea walls, rock piles, and other obstacles.

The group also calls for so - called «soft engineering» solutions to trump hard infrastructure projects like sea walls or tide gates.

«You can get to a point of diminishing returns,» he said, where the cost of valves and raised sea walls far exceeds the values of properties.

The other is to construct sea walls to hold back the rising tides.

It largely limits sea walls to homes built before 1977, when the measure took effect.

Not all resorts have beaches but have sea walls instead.

It is also sometimes used for the smaller sea walls that are being built to slow down beach erosion.

Both cities want the companies to pay for climate change adaptation programs, which would include the construction of sea walls and raising low - lying buildings exposed to rising tides.

And many adaptation projects like building sea walls are essential to the continued existence of climate vulnerable countries, but don't necessarily turn a profit.

On the other, they have established funds to help poor nations pay for «adaptation» measures, such as sea walls and irrigation systems, to help fend off the unavoidable consequences.

Some native seaweeds might be able to compete with the alien kelp but over centuries of cultivation Japanese farmers selected strains that grow easily on artificial and floating surfaces, giving it an advantage on sea walls and pilings.

With the catalogue of risks, the scientists said they hoped to persuade governments and the public that it was past time to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to plan for sea walls and other infrastructure that offer some protection for climate change.

The authors say that in Australia and Canada, conservation reserves are being used as drought relief to feed livestock, while forests in the Congo Basin in Africa are being cleared for agriculture in response to drought, and coral reefs are being destroyed to build sea walls from the low - lying islands in Melanesia.

It carries a road to the lifeboat station at its tip, and has been kept in place for 150 years by sea walls.

Gov. Fauzi Bowo wants to build a large sea wall at a cost of $ 20 billion.

Home also has direct access to the river and has a concrete sea wall along both of the property's boundaries with the canal.

Explore an underwater sea wall, the coral reef, a shipwreck, and probably all three!

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.

Rising sea level could suddenly begin to breach sea walls, for example, and thawing permafrost could cause the sudden collapse of buildings, roads, or pipelines.

From the brightly colored Sea Wall Murals to the Statues honoring Isla's past and present.

These snails actually live on the backside of the island, but land fill material from there has been used to build up the beach behind sea walls, so some empty shells can be found in front of some of the beach front buildings.

«We favour recharging beaches rather than building new sea walls,» he says.

It relies on a giant sea wall.

One, written by Andrew St Joseph, environmental consultant and resident of the Essex marshes, recommends that 30 kilometres of Essex sea wall, defending 10 square kilometres of land, should no longer be maintained.

Hidden away in the unusual privacy, tranquility and quiet of our magical spot, expect to luxuriate and restore yourself while watching the surf, the sunrise, the sunset from the many patios, the Grand Palapa, the long front row seat of our rustic stone sea wall patio, from a hammock or from our broad white beach in front.

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Take Rosy Keyser's Big Sugar Sea Wall (2012), a large work in which sheets of corrugated steel and polycarbonate have been hammered onto and behind a wooden frame.

Exactly how much «disaster memory» does it take to know that a 30 - foot tsunami will breach a 12 - foot sea wall?

However, a study of the coastline five years ago by the consultants Sir William Halcrow found that «the presence of sea walls appears to exacerbate foreshore erosion».

PangeaSeed Foundation, in collaboration with Proyecto Panorama, and CIMUC, Cancun's urban image commission, presented Sea Walls Cancun - an initiative aimed to generate awareness and explore creati

At 10:30 a.m., NYC Parks Department's Manhattan Borough Commissioner William Castro joins City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, City Councilman Ben Kallos and Rep. Carolyn Maloney to break ground on the East River Esplanade sea wall reconstruction, East River Esplanade, East 88th Street, Manhattan.

That blue wave which Democratic candidates are counting on to sweep them into state and federal offices this year hit a minor sea wall in last month's special election for Pete Lopez's old Assembly seat.

«You're going to have to make big hard decisions like, «I'm going to do what they did in the capital of the Maldives,» which was make a huge sea wall and build huge desalination facilities.

«In 1971 we built the first sea wall... from coral reef rocks and rocks from the hill.

Fukushima Daiichi was plunged into crisis because its design included a «single point of failure» — in this case, an inadequate sea wall that allowed the tsunami to knock out multiple critical systems (see «Fukushima's fate inspires nuclear safety rethink» and «Can diverse power backups boost nuclear plant safety?

«I can not imagine that the right solution out is to keep the ocean out via sea wall,» Kennel said.

Roads flood and seawater overtops sea walls during king tides, the annual extreme tides of autumn.

Ron Linfield of the NRA says replenishment of the beaches from Mablethorpe to Skegness in Lincolnshire is vital to prevent waves undermining sea walls and flooding the land behind.

The higher sea level — a foot higher than when the city's protective sea walls were built a century ago — can be attributed to climate change, Mann said.

So sea walls will be-come more vulnerable, until a major flood seals their fate.