Coastal
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Such catastrophic events underscore the vulnerability of
coastal
regions worldwide to extreme weather events that produce intense storm surges (increased water depth at the coast) and large, powerful waves.
When
coastal
areas were not heavily inhabited, such storms, while violent, did not cause significant, lasting damage to people’s livelihoods and lifestyles.
Clearly, the combination of storm surges and large waves causes major devastation in
coastal
areas.
In fact, engineering approaches have been developed that can protect
coastal
residents from the consequences of extreme storms.
Previous efforts to enhance
coastal
protection can provide a roadmap to reconstruction that will help to avert future damage.
To be sure, such
coastal
defenses could help to protect crucial structures.
Sand mounds are particularly advantageous, given
coastal
areas’ economic value.
In any case, stricter building codes are crucial for structures built in
coastal
areas.
In addition, construction in
coastal
areas damaged by extreme events could be prohibited, as has been done in Hilo, Hawaii.
In the past, it might have made sense to protect the nascent industries in the
coastal
regions from foreign competition.
Today, however, China’s protectionist regime does little to help nascent industries in the poor interior, because their biggest competitors are no longer foreign companies, but rather firms from the dynamic
coastal
areas.
Heavily armed bands of modern-day pirates in speedboats are terrorizing ships in Somalia’s
coastal
waters.
But with growth in China's
coastal
region running at possibly 15% per year, who can seriously doubt that in 15 years it will surpass Brazil?
But, on the other hand, some of Bush’s more intemperate Republican colleagues might have told him that global warming will lift ocean levels to the point where many of the
coastal
“blue” states, which tend to vote for the opposition Democrats, will be washed away, leaving only “red” Republican states in the center of the country.
First, we must change the way we design cities.Sustainability must be central to all urban planning, particularly in
coastal
cities that will soon face the ravaging effects of climate change.
At Fukushima, a perfect storm – a massive earthquake and tsunami, multiple vulnerable
coastal
reactors with spent-fuel ponds in the same buildings, inadequate barriers, loss of power, and back-up generators situated too low – may have seemed a remote possibility.
Fifteen years later, when the UK finally acceded to UNCLOS under a Labour government, the convention was applying, for the first time in history, an internationally agreed legal framework to the majority of
coastal
waters around the world.
Production costs (wages, office rents, land, capital, etc.) in China’s
coastal
provinces – where most of the country’s manufacturing and service production, as well as foreign direct investment, are located – have been rising fast.
Since last year alone, minimum wages in nine of twelve
coastal
provinces (including Beijing) rose by an average of more than 21%.
But an important caveat is in order: China has a vast interior that is far less developed than the
coastal
provinces.
As a result, firms based in the
coastal
provinces that have to move their production (and see no need to diversify away from China) can choose to relocate to China’s interior, rather than going abroad.
And only cooperation can enable humanity to face up to urgent planetary challenges, including the destruction of biodiversity, the poisoning of the oceans, and the threat posed by global warming to the world’s food supply, vast drylands, and heavily populated
coastal
regions.
With one billion people - one sixth of all humanity -- stretched across a diverse sub-continent that ranges from the Himalayas to desert to fertile river valleys to great
coastal
cities, everything about India lies beyond generalization.
The average cost for a worker is $1.08 per hour in China’s
coastal
provinces and $0.55-0.80 in the inland provinces.
Along China’s dynamic
coastal
belt, local governments are drafting new economic blueprints to push their firms up the value-added chain.
Entire sections of Africa’s coastline, including almost one-third of its
coastal
infrastructure, will be submerged.
A major novelty of the study is to analyze the impacts of climate change on several different regions of the US, and on several different sectors such as agriculture, health, water management, forestry, and
coastal
resources (many of which will be submerged or damaged by rising ocean levels and the increased severity of storms).
Even in the far northern reaches of the Reef, long at a sufficient distance from human pressures like
coastal
development to preserve, to a large extent, coral health, a staggering 50% of the coral has died.
And will China’s
coastal
export interests again prevail in exchange rate policy decisions, at the expense of poor inland consumers?
The China Model is attractive not only to the country’s new
coastal
elites, but has global appeal.
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