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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"Coastal Areas"”.
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Effect of plastics on sediment mobility in rivers and coastal areas
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Cyclone shelters and cyclone resilient design in coastal areas of Bangladesh
… organizations have greatly increased the coastal communities' resistance to cyclones. This thesis focuses on cyclone shelter programs, one of the most important cyclone mitigating measures. Although cyclone shelters have proven to be effective, they are currently not adequate, which …
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Distributed approaches for coverage missions with multiple heterogeneous UAVs for coastal areas.
… wing teams of robots, which operate in complex coastal areas. Recent advances in the computational capabilities of modern processors along with the decrement of small scale aerial platform manufacturing costs, have given researchers the opportunity to propose efficient and low-cost solutions to …
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Sea level variations and the impacts along the coastal areas of Nigeria
A brief review of the Nigerian Coastal Areas including the geology, geomorphology, topography, climate, and vegetation has been given. Nigeria has a coastline of about 850km facing the Atlantic Ocean and the coastal areas support a population of about 20 million people and a myriad of economic …
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Geological recognition of abrupt marine invasions in two coastal areas of Portugal
… and storms are particularly devastating for coastal areas. They may also leave a permanent record in the sedimentary deposits which is the principal focus of this thesis. In historical times the most destructive tsunami that affected Europe was the AD 1755 Lisbon. The effects and consequences …
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An economic evaluation on FRP for bridge construction in South African coastal areas
… corrosion of reinforcing steel, especially in coastal environments. However, the use of FRP composites for bridge construction is faced with challenges. These challenges arise from uncertainties regarding the high material and initial construction costs. Additionally, there is limited research …
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Biological and ecological processes during the establishment of a marine invasion : the Siganus rabbitfishes from the Red Sea to the coastal areas of Cyrenaica, Libya
… success and ecological diversification of these coastal species, raising considerations for their management and that of the environment that changes around them.
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Relationship between the land/sea breeze circulations and the air pollution dispersion over the coastal area of Kuwait.
… of winds during the summertime over the coastal area of Kuwait, to identify the effect the sea-land breeze circulations have on the winds, and determine the effects of the wind patterns of pollution concentration in the region. Nearly all of the severe air quality conditions over the …
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Coastal development decision-making in Costa Rica : the need for a new framework to balance socio-economic and environmental impacts
… needs to pay attention to the rapid change that coastal regions have been undergoing as a result of tourism and real estate projects. Despite the economic benefits in terms of jobs and foreign investment, many have raised concerns over construction in high slopes, approval of projects without the …
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An investigation of the awareness and preparedness amongst the tourism and event industries of the threat of a marine-based terrorist attack.
… to the tourism and event industries operating in coastal areas in the United Kingdom and gain an in depth understanding of the perception, awareness, and preparedness of marine-based terrorist risk held by the multiple stakeholders involved. This research took a qualitative approach obtaining the …
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Landscape planning in the context of European spatial planning: integration, cooperation, partecipation and perception
… between environmental and economic needs in coastal areas. For these areas, the Sardinian PPR sets rules and policies to protect landscape and cultural identity. In order to achieve these aims, it provides prescriptive rules and indicative policies to be implemented by means of other plans, …
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Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research Reserve on Jones Point
… of the United States population now lives in coastal areas, including shores of estuaries. Unfortunately, this increasing concentration of people upsets the balance of ecosystems. My thesis project, Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research Reserve on Jones Point is about setting an …
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Coastal Erosion Hazard in Bangladesh: Space-time pattern analysis and empirical forecasting, impacts on land use/cover, and human risk perception
Coastal areas are vulnerable to different natural hazards, including hurricanes, cyclones, tsunami, floods, coastal erosion, and saltwater intrusion. These hazards cause extensive social, ecological, economic, and human losses. Continued climate change and sea-level rise is expected to …
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Characterization and comparison of microbial communities from different tourist ports in Mediterranean Sea and evaluation of applicability of bioremediation treatments
… and oceans for many millennia and have used the coastal waters as a prehistoric resource for food and expansion around the planet (Moore et al., 2013). Coastal region are frequently areas of great natural beauty and are used extensively for recreation and tourism as reflected in the mass …
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Tourism management guidelines for the Erongo coastal region, Namibia
Coastal areas are important as they contain a disproportionately large share of global urban areas; industrial activities; pollution sources; food production; tourism; biodiversity and poverty (Olsen, 1993: 201 ). Throughout much of the world, these areas face considerable population and …
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Coastal surface circulation of the Gulf of Cadiz from satellite altimetry measurements
… thesis is to contribute to the understanding of coastal zone dynamics using high-resolution altimetry data. The study evaluates the possibility of studying mesoscale surface circulation in coastal areas, particularly in the Gulf of Cadiz, Spain, using high-resolution altimetry data with a posting …
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Inter-annual and decadal variation in the pelagic marine ecosystem of the Yellow and East China seas
… and chlorophyll concentrations of the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) and the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) were compared to investigate decadal trends in the Yellow and East China Seas (YECS). A unified bio-optical algorithm was derived to convert CZCS pigments to …
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Political Ecology and Coastal Conservation: A Case Study of Menai Bay Conservation Area, Tanzania
Many of Africa's coastal areas are experiencing alarming levels of degradation. In response, marine conservation efforts there are on the rise, many of which claim community empowerment as an essential goal. Researchers have begun to use theories of political ecology to study the ways in which …
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