Coastal Zone Management
Costal areas are home to the highest concentration of human populations, highlighting the need to help people living in these areas adapt. The combination of rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and extreme weather events, such as tropical cyclones, means that coastal areas will be particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. How communities adapt depends on the context of the area. In some cases, ecosystem-based adaptation measures like mangrove reforestation may be appropriate, while in urban contexts, physical infrastructure options such as sea walls may be the most efficient means of protecting the people and businesses in coastal zones.
Central Maluku consists of small islands vulnerable to even the smallest of ecological changes. As an archipelago, this area greatly depends on the ocean; both as source of living and connecting route between areas. Weather and seasons are among the factors influencing
In Zanzibar, one of the two countries that form the United Republic of Tanzania (URT), climate variability has caused prolonged dry periods and unpredictable rainfall pattern making crop cultivation unproductive. Freshwater resources are also in limited supply mainly dependent on seasonal rains that store water in inefficient groundwater aquifers consisting of freshwater lenses floating on
Climate change and climate variability are impeding development efforts on Dionewar Island on the west coast of Senegal. Under the combined effects of climate change and human activities, over 38% of the mangrove swamp in the Saloum estuary has disappeared according to the estimates. This degradation has led to significant ecological and economic losses. One
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a group of approximately 600 islands, is located near the Equator about 4,000 km southwest of the Hawaiian Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean. Areas of small island countries, such as the FSM, exceed well over 5000 mm of precipitation annually which makes them some of the wettest places
Peru sustains the most productive fisheries in the world, yielding nearly 10% of world's fish catch. The main driving factor for this enormous productivity is the physical and chemical characteristics of its coastal upwelling, which allow the efficient growth of primary producers, high survival rates of larvae and the efficient trophic transfer to foraging fish