Namibia: Desert Rose Project to Go Ahead
Swakopmund — The controversial N$8 billion Desert Rose project, expected to be constructed just outside Swakopmund, will go ahead as planned despite resistance from some environmentalists and concerned
Coastal Development
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Kenya: Lamu Port Project Has Denied Us Cultural Rights, Fishermen Tell Court
Lamu fishermen on Tuesday told a five-judge bench that the ongoing construction of the multibillion-shilling Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor had violated their rights to cultural
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Adaptation to climate change in coastal areas of the ECA Region: a contribution to the umbrella report on adaptation to climate change in ECA
Coastal areas have been centers of human activity throughout history and current trends indicate that migration toward these zones is continuing. The main reason for this is that the rich variety of ecosystems
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Coastal occupation affects tropical reefs in Brazil
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and the Federal University of South of
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Coastal land expands as construction outpaces sea level rise
The Earth has gained coastal land equivalent to the size of Jamaica in the past 30 years with man-made construction outpacing erosion caused by rising sea levels, mapping data showed on Thursday. Expansion
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Government planning to expand activities along coastline: Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave
Government is working on a policy to expand various activities along the country’s coastline, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said today, asserting that good development and environment could co-exist
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Coastal Zone Management Plan, 02/08/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Coastal Zone Management Plan, 02/08/2016. Coastal Zone Management Plans (CZMPs) of coastal States and Union Territories (UTs) approved by the Government of India in 1996
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Report of the Committee to Review the Issues relating to the Coastal Regulation Zone, 2011 (Shailesh Nayak Committee)
Sixteen months after a Right to Information (RTI) application was filed, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has disclosed a copy of the “Report of the Committee to Review the
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Act now or pay later: protecting a billion people in climate-threatened coastal cities
More than a billion people across the world are living in cities seriously threatened by climate change. These are coastal cities, and most are already experiencing increased flooding, extreme weather
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Managing coasts with natural solutions: guidelines for measuring and valuing the coastal protection services of mangroves and coral reefs
This guidance note provides review and recommendations for how the protective services of mangroves and coral reefs can be measured and valued in a manner consistent with national economic accounts and