coastal cities
Coastal Cities and Environmental Change
... Building cities in coastal environments that are less stable than those inland; investing labour, engineering skill and enormous sums of money in landmaking and port development, not only in Boston but ...
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A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts
... events. Coastal floods are regarded as among the most dangerous and harmful of natural disasters (Douben ...within coastal zones (du Gommes et ...wider coastal ecosystem (Kumar ...vulnerable ...
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Tunisian Coastal Cities Attractiveness and Amenities
... littoral cities, Belhadi (1990) et Ben Letaeif( ...big cities of the littoral band of the country, Dhaher ...in coastal cities; this fast increase is underlain by the developments of transport ...
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A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts
... events. Coastal floods are regarded as among the most dangerous and harmful of natural disasters (Douben ...within coastal zones (du Gommes et ...wider coastal ecosystem (Kumar ...vulnerable ...
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The Impact of Hurricanes on Housing Prices: Evidence from US Coastal Cities
... of coastal areas covers a longer time period (1988 to 2005), more areas (99 CBSAs spread over 19 coastal states) and includes more hurricanes strikes (13 hurricanes) than most other ...
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In harm's way? Infrastructure investments and the persistence of coastal cities
... in coastal and low-lying regions (DiGregorio (2013)), which have received a disproportionate share of major infrastructure ...elevation coastal zone susceptible to inundation in the coming ...
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A Methodology for Assessing Dynamic Resilience of Coastal Cities to Climate Change Influenced Hydrometeorological Disasters
... period of response during a disaster. Another scenario may consider the effects of allocating additional financial resources to a particular model domain in the period of recovery after a disaster. These scenarios can be ...
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The Role of Geomorphological Studies in Development of Coastal Cities
... of coastal area in unit one of Srokhrood reach toward unit ten of interval from 0/15 to 0/1 percent in- dicates the gradual decrease the average slope of studied reaches in the direction of West to the ...
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The importance of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in coastal cities: The case study of Cancun, Mexico
... In the matter of levels and scales extent and coherence are the two quality criteria that are most easily recognisable. In the matter of extent, this governance dimension can be deemed as adequate if we talk only about ...
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Taking the heterogeneity of citizens into account: flood risk communication in coastal cities – a case study of Bremen
... examined cities the citizens are very well-informed despite the cities’ different character- istics like their historical background or the geographical lo- ...
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Determination of Yearly Wind Energy Potential and Extraction of Wind Energy Using Wind Turbine for Coastal Cities of Baluchistan, Pakistan
... Although fit results suggest good fitting of Weibull function to observed wind speed data distribution despite the fact that the calculated Weibull wind power density values are highe[r] ...
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LUEP_Final_Dwyer_Caroline.pdf
... On October 29, 2012, the United States was delivered a devastating reminder of exactly how vulnerable our coastal cities and communities remain, particularly in light of the likelihood of sea level rise ...
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Meteorological Indices Approach for Prediction of Thunderstorm Probability at Two Coastal Sites in Egypt
... two coastal cities in Egypt; Sham El Sheikh and El ...the coastal strip along the Red Sea, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, ...
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CONCENTRATIONS OF HEAVY METALS IN EDIBLE CRABS FROM TAMIL NADU COAST, SOUTH INDIA
... The Portunus edible crabs are one of the commercially important crabs and widely distributed throughout the Indian coastal regions. These crabs are esteemed palatable seafood item which stands as significant ...
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Strategies for increasing tsunami shelter accessibility to enhance hazard risk adaptive capacity in coastal port cities: a study of Nagoya city, Japan
... Tsunami shelters are also effective shelters that protect against other surge and wind hazards caused by meteorolog- ical factors that are intensified by climate change (Solecki et al., 2011), such as storm tides. The ...
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Evolution of New Coastal Urban Lifestyles in West Africa: Implications for Planning Sustainable African Cities
... intermediate coastal centres with 60% in cities of less than 500,000 ...thematic coastal issues of climate change and sea level rise have captured researchers interest with little focus on lifestyles ...
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Agglomeration and Firm Wage Inequality: Evidence from China
... the coastal panel models that reflect the short-run effects in Table 4, with exceptions in column (2) and (3), population is statistically insignificant, most notably in our base models in columns (5) and ...the ...
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Do sister cities matter for international municipal networking? analysis of cities of newfoundland and labrador province in canada
... sister cities initiative can be described as serious relationship which focuses on the development of both ...two cities. Furthermore, the historical connections between the two cities lead to a ...
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Cities, Global Cities and Glasgow - Some Reflections
... that cities become stuck in ‘negative path dependencies’: for example, when their economies become too narrowly specialised (as with Detroit in the 1960s); or when transport decisions lock them in to a model that ...
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Sustainable coastal zone management strategies for the unconsolidated odisha coastal tract, India
... of coastal zone that endangers many conflicts between various resource users and also provides the backdrop of several problems of interaction between coastal processes and natural systems and problems of ...
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