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mangroves
1.5 metric tonnes of CO2 absorbed per hectare per year
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2001 Indian Ocean tsunami
worse due to lack of coastal mangroves
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mangroves
25 degrees north/south
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mangroves
fish nurseries (520mil people rely on fisheries)
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coral reefs
storm buffer
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coral bleaching
higher ocean temps \= algae released
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grasslands to farmlands
USA
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grasslands to farmlands
5.5 mil hectare loss
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grasslands to farmlands
done to meet env protection agency standards & boost rural economies
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deforestation
Madagascar
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Sofia & Betsibokae rivers
red due to soil erosion (400 tonnes per hectare annually)
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1950
11.6 mil hectares of Madagascan trop rainforest
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1985
3.8 mil hectares of Madagascan trop rainforest
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Brazil
world leader in biofuel production
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flex fuel cars in Brazil
90%
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biofuel emissions
80% less (CO2)
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carbon capture
Sask Power Boundary Dam (Canada)
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OPEC
40% control of international oil
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Saudi Arabia
OPEC's most important player
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Gulf of Mexico
deep water oil drilling
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Thunder Horse
biggest DW oil rig
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Alberta
1.3 mil barrels of crude oil a day
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Alberta boreal forest
25% destroyed
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Beijing Olympics
cloud seeding
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Malaysian water
Singapore agreed to import until 2061
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NEWater
UV disinfection & membranes to convert waste water - 4 plants
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Singapore
want to reduce per person water use/day from 141 to 130 by 2030
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Egypt water
95% from Nile
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Nile Agreement
1929 - gave Egypt & Sudan veto power
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Ethiopian Blue Nile
provides 85% of Nile water
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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
2011 - downstream losses & tensions
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Boscastle rainfall
6hrs rainfall - 6 inches
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Boscastle geology/landscape
granite/surrounded by hills (convectional rainfall)
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Californian harvest
640,000 fewer acres harvested due to la nina droughts
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Californian wildfires
1600 more wildfires than normal
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3 Gorges displacement
1.1 mil
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South-north displacement
345,000
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3 Gorges endangerment
82 species (plants and fish)
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3 Gorges energy
world's largest HEP - 34 generators (energy equiv to 30 mil tons of coal!!)
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3 Gorges river
Yangtze
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South-north pollution
may make water undrinkable
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South-north volume
44.8 bil cumecs annually to the north
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South-north cost
$62 bil
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Sahel
semi arid area - desertification occuring
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Sahel desertification reasons
human settlement; overgrazing, deforestation, population growth
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Sahel countries
Chad, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger etc.
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Tohoku
2011
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Tohoku
9.0 magnitude
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Tohoku
360 billion damages
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Tohoku
19747 deaths
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Tohoku/Merapi
destructive
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Tohoku
Fukushima
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Tohoku
global economic impact
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Tohoku
tsunami
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Haiti/EFJ/Merapi
2010
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Haiti
7.0 magnitude
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Haiti
8.5 billion cost
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Haiti
316,000 deaths
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Haiti
conservative
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Haiti
3/4 of GDP
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Haiti
48% of 13 billion aid made it
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Haiti
poor governance
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EFJ
0 deaths
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EFJ/Merapi
composite cone
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EFJ
constructive
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EFJ
tourism boost
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EFJ
10km ash plume (international areal extent-Kenyan flower farmers lost 5000 crops)
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EFJ
1 billion loss due to airspace closure
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Merapi
353 deaths
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Merapi
cultural opposition to evacuation
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Merapi
350,000 fled
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Merapi
disease outbreak
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Merapi
Pacific 'Ring of Fire'
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Philippines
Monsoon climate
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Philippines
On major boundary
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Philippines
Within the tropics typhoon belt
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Philippines
e.g. 2004 Indian Ocean
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Philippines
low-mid income NEE
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Sea Palling / EASC
9 artificial reefs
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Lowestoft / EASC
Current scarring
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Blackney Point / EASC
4 mile spit
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Ayr
Christmas trees on coast to stabilise sand dunes
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Croatia
Dalmatian coast
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Dorset / Ballard Point
Old Harry & his wife - cave-arch-stack-stump
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Holderness sediment cell
Flamborough
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Holderness council
east riding of Yorkshire
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Holderness ineffective
piecemeal of coastal defences
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Mappleton / H
current scarring
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Spurn Point / H
spit (H)
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Bridlington
4.7km sea wall
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Hornsea
Sea wall, groynes and rock armour
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Easington
High value gas terminal
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Bangladesh
1-3m above sea level
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Bay of Bengal
funnel for storms
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Bangladesh
densely populated
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Bangladesh
alluvial till coastal geology
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Mangrove village
2 deaths
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Deforested village
6000 deaths
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Bangladesh
sidr
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Bangladesh
6m storm surge
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