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ACSAD is also working to increase communication and liaison between the north and south Mediterranean coasts as concerns soil degradation and land management through its MED coastal project.

for land use and coastal zone monitoring in Indonesia

The following trends may be observed on the basis of information on property and holdings in a coastal province

(f) Assessment of environmental sensitivity and proper land use of coastal urban areas.

C. Coastal zone

The coastal region Between the mountains and the sea

The UNEP Regional Seas Programme, covering 17 regions around the world and more than 140 coastal States and territories, provides a framework for regional agreements and conventions and their related action plans to protect the coastal and marine environment.

55. The study area was located along the northern coast of Central Java.

(a) Multi temporal ERS 1 SAR images are very useful for land use and coastal zone management, including monitoring of changes in the coastal land cover and coastline at high and low tide and detection of oil spills

Berms are being constructed along vulnerable coastal areas.

The prospect of increased economic activity at the sea's edge will inevitably result in the increased movement of people to coastal areas.

Measures to adjust to sea level rise, including through land use changes, new planning and investment and, more generally, through integrated coastal zone management, research and monitoring of coastal resources, were also considered as important for adaptation.

Many Parties were concerned most about the economic impacts in the coastal zones, and about loss of land and infrastructure.

Microwaves are able to penetrate cloud cover and allow the monitoring of land use and coastal areas on a weather independent basis.

(b) Countries with low lying coastal areas

b) Countries with low lying coastal areas

F. Integrated ocean and coastal zone management

(a) Over land, to investigate the potential of ERS 1 SAR for mapping areas used for fish ponds, harbours, coastal infrastructures, settlements, rice fields and other land use categories, and its relevance for coastal zone management

Wave power is restricted to coastal areas.

Later, town and country planning, land use planning, coastal studies or mineral and oil exploration required reliable geographical information.

The following projects for the coastline and sea areas have been initiated

Threats of flooding in the Ecuadorian coastal region

I grew up on the coast of England in the '70s.

Some Parties have already undertaken measures to protect coastal areas, such as building retention walls and sand injections to counteract soil erosion.

This means that, in fact, the majority of marine waste comes from coastal areas.

I wound up studying sea birds to try to stay in the coastal habitats that I so loved.

Similarly, the diminution of coastal forests had made localities in the coastal area more vulnerable to cyclones.

Coastal and marine resources

In the opinion of the Panel, it is possible that the exposure of Saudi Arabia's population to contaminants resulting from the invasion and occupation caused an increase in the number of cases of cardiovascular, respiratory and systemic diseases in Saudi Arabia.

The main findings of the MED POL assessment of coastal litter in the Mediterranean are

(a) Review of instruments relevant to IMCAM

(iv) Coastline relocation programme for low income families construction of houses flats to relocate families living in the coastline area to provide them with a better living environment and improve the coastal environment

Such a large scale movement of populations to coastal areas, coupled with a significant increase in economic activity and industrialization along the coastline including oil and gas exploration, mining, fish farming, tourism and the development of ports would put enormous pressure on coastal areas.

Its major commercial applications included coastal zone and environmental monitoring, marine navigation, offshore oil and gas operation, natural disaster mitigation and coastal and deep ocean fishing.

Coastal States are also required to give due publicity to all these charts and lists of geographical coordinates.

Much of the world apos s population lives along the coast.

You might argue that the story, the history of civilizations, has been civilizations gathered around seas with the first ones around the Mediterranean, the more recent ones in the ascendents of Western power around the Atlantic.

Marine and coastal living resources

(b) Information management in the North West Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) directory of coastal and marine experts and institutions bibliography on coastal and marine environments in the region and feasibility report on GIS applications in coastal marine environment for NOWPAP.

10. The programme identifies important operational objectives and priority activities within the framework of five key programme elements integrated marine and coastal area management (IMCAM) marine and coastal living resources marine and coastal protected areas mariculture and alien species.

The large population in our coastal areas and in the islands has always looked to the sea for sustenance.

(b) National and regional capacity in the field of IMCAM

The implementation of cooperation plans to protect the Mediterranean environment, both coastal and marine, is therefore a priority.

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