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The Sargasso Sea, for example, is not a sea bounded by coastlines, but it is bounded by oceanic currents that contain and envelope this wealth of sargassum that grows and aggregates there.
From Tanzania to Timor-Leste, from India to Indonesia, we're seeing the same story unfold: that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines, strengthening confidence, cooperation and the resilience of communities to face the injustice of poverty and climate change.
Dense forests and tall mountains made overland travel difficult, but long coastlines and numerous rivers, lakes, and fjords provided a viable alternative.
Our tadpole-like ancestors flitted along ancient coastlines, while their eel-like relatives with gnashing throat teeth swam above the ice-cream cone corals of the first reefs, dodging school-bus-sized krakens and hungry sea scorpions.
But now, with commerce and recreation dominating coastlines worldwide, the “let it be” approach of the past is no longer practical.
Humans have always been prey to nature’s force, especially along exposed coastlines, riverbanks, or hillsides.
Following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – which devastated the coastlines of 11 countries, resulting in more than 150,000 deaths, a half-million injuries, and over $10 billion in damages – 168 governments agreed to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), a comprehensive ten-year plan for reducing disaster risk.
Continued development in vulnerable regions – particularly coastlines – contributes heavily to the increasing exposure of economic assets.
Because aquaculture systems often operate on coastlines or near inland rivers or ponds, they tend to disrupt natural habitats, contribute to nitrogen pollution, and add undue pressure on feeder fish stocks.
The risks are arguably highest on Asia’s crowded coastlines, where millions of people are exposed to flooding.
On the preventive front, countless lives can be saved by simple actions such as flood-proofing coastlines, or strengthening earthquake codes for hospitals and schools.
Many nuclear-power plants are located along coastlines, because they are highly water-intensive.
In Asia, which now leads the world in terms of adding nuclear power capacity, most new plants are located along coastlines, so that these thirsty facilities can draw more on seawater.
Moreover, depleted aquifers near coastlines are prone to contamination from saltwater, rendering land barren.
As population rises, billions of people crowd into Earth’s vulnerable areas – near coastlines battered by storms and rising sea levels, on mountainsides susceptible to landslides and earthquakes, or in water-stressed regions plagued by drought, famine, and disease.
Yet billions of the world’s poorest people live on degraded landscapes, deforested and eroded soils, and over-fished coastlines where conservation is vital to lifting them out of poverty.
Tourism depends on sensible visa requirements, convenient airports, road signs, hotel construction permits, and the preservation of cultural sites and coastlines.
Coastlines are shrinking.
In that period, many coastlines increased , most obviously in Holland, because rich countries can easily protect and even expand their territory.
Perhaps Hurricane Sandy will spur US citizens and politicians to take climate change seriously – and to implement public policies aimed at protecting America’s cities and coastlines.
But IOR-ARC doesn’t have to confine itself to the water: it’s the countries that are members, not just their coastlines.
It will also require new resources, and not just to repair eroded coastlines and prepare for rising seas and extreme weather.
The reality of climate change is sinking in, with millions now feeling its effects – from rising sea levels and disappearing coastlines to more frequent extreme weather such as droughts, floods, and wildfires.
With 90% of the world’s urban areas on coastlines and at risk from rising sea levels, there is significant work to be done to protect the bulk of the world’s population from these and other climate-related threats.
Tourism, which is concentrated along the Seychelles’ coastlines and is driven by the country’s natural beauty on land and underwater, employs some 25%.
Historically, globally significant cities have almost always been littoral, located either on coastlines or navigable rivers.
From this fact he drew the conclusion that the Antarctic Circle must contain considerable shores, since icebergs can't form on the high seas but only along coastlines.