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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
China’s Pearl River Delta, Bangladesh and Egypt," said Robert ... We will see a drier summer in arid and semi-arid areas which will make water management much more difficult in the future ... metres, threatening millions of people living in island states and low-lying coastal areas. The rise would be primarily due to thermal expansion ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
A couple of decades ago the flooding was not so bad as last year's ...
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Freshwater Website: Groundwater (Groundwater and wetlands)
Others, especially those in low-lying areas, may be the receptors for significant amounts of groundwater discharge. Therefore, if the ...
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Trialogue on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Desertification
Climatic zones (and thus ecosystems and agricultural zones) could shift towards ... creates desert-like conditions and is called "desertification". This process happens piecemeal as different areas of degraded land spread and merge together, rather than through advancing desert. The definition ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Densely settled and intensively used low-lying coastal plains, islands, and deltas are especially vulnerable to coastal erosion and land loss, ... risk are large delta regions of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Viet Nam, and Thailand, and the low-lying areas of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Socioeconomic impacts could be felt in major cities ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
African Coastal Zones The African coastal zone consists of a narrow, low-lying coastal belt. It also includes the continental shelf and coasts of 32 mainland countries. ... low-lying areas or increase flooding caused by storm surges and intense rainstorms. The coastal nations of west and central Africa (e.g., Senegal, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola) have low-lying ...
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Protected area review > Vietnam > Field study > Thua Thien Hue province
All gifs less than 25 KB] District boundaries Population density Infrastructure Land use Protected areas Elevation Drainage - Digital Elevation Model Catchments Bach Ma National Park Nursery sites in ...
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SCWP | Tyumen and Kurgan Transboundary Wetlands | Russia
In the low-lying areas, there are numerous lakes and marshes overgrown with emergent, floating and submerged aquatic plants ... breeding populations of waterfowl and colonial shore birds. Conservation Status A number of protected areas were established at this project site. 1. Belozersky State Wildlife Refuge (zakaznik) in ...
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The UK Groundwater Forum
Groundwater tends to flow from areas where the ground level is high, to areas where the ground level is low. In low-lying areas the water table is usually at shallower depths anyway, but during very wet periods, with all the additional groundwater flowing towards these areas, ...
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HarvestH2O.com :: The Online Rainwater Harvesting Community
Florida has documented the storm water quality benefits from swales and low-lying areas by reducing the flow and allowing slower infiltration into the groundwater system. This is ... metaphor?). It is best when designing the home landscape to preserve low-lying areas such as wetlands and swales. These low-lying areas retain storm water, provide water quality filtration and may allow for ...
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