coast case studies

Question 1

Jakarta

Answer 1

SUBSIDENCE
- up to 25cm/year
- 32 million population
- illegal draining of groundwater due to people not having access to clean public water
- stagnant water is a health hazard

Question 2

Bangladesh

Answer 2

-built POLDERS (30 million people live on them. they funnel sea water inland and prevent the distribution of sediment)
-subsidence of 1.5m over last 50 years
-Himalayan snow melt and monsoon rain impacts being made worse by climate change

Question 3

Bangladesh Cyclone Sidr

Answer 3

-$2.31 billion cost
-3199 dead
-34500 injured
-STORM SURGE
-farmland affected
-gov asked for assistance

Question 4

Kiribati

Answer 4

-sea level rising 1.2cm a year
-islands are only 2m above sea level
-contaminated water supplies (water stressed)
-bought Fiji islands for 121000 refugees

Question 5

Rossall, Blackpool

Answer 5

-£64 million cost
-New revetments and sea wall
-protects 7500 properties (including a NHS office, hospital, high school, and tram network)

Question 6

Blackwater estuary

Answer 6

-Sea walls needed repairing, but coastal squeeze was reducing the marshlands (60% lost in last 25 years)
-SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT = managed retreat
-ecotourism increased
-land had to be taken away from some local farmers

Question 7

Hurricane Sandy?

Answer 7

2012 NEW YORK
- Storm surge flooded Lower Manhatten (9ft in some places)
-286 deaths
- Don’t normally reach NY
- Costliest (>$60 billion)
MADE WORSE BY CLIMATE CHANGE= 71000 extra people affected due to climate change