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coasts
which 3 towns are hold the line😗

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hornsea, withernsea, easington

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coasts
why do kilnsea do nothing🦈
what is bad about this for residents x

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their defences starved spurn head which is an SSSI of material- eroding it so they were removed.
the residents have no insurance or compensation
they tried managed retreat themselves but ditched it

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coasts
why is holderness eroding so fast (and how fast?)🥀
what’s bad about this for them🌝

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eroding 2m a year
it’s made of soft boulder clay
it’s exposed to small fetch waves
it has narrow beaches
tourist industry lost-chalets fell in sea
no compensation for loss of private property and land

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bangladesh
what has increased their risks of badness of flooding?🦁

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deforestation of mangrove forests
cyclones and heavy monsoon rains
clearing and draining land for cultivation
very densely populated
(46% of pop lives less than 10m above sea level)
lies on the flood plain of 3 major rivers

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5
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coasts
in odisha india what is the ICZM doing💋

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controlling coastal erosion
developing ecotourism
replanting mangroves

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carbon
what happened at the gulf oil spill 2010

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gulf of mexico oil platform spill
coastal areas at 4 US states at risk- harms ecosystems
42,000 gallons a day lost- 30% USA’s oil production is from here
price of seafood and gas rose

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carbon
what’s the deal with brazil biofuel carz

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they emit 20% less co2 than petrol
but they need deforestation to make it
this occupied the land that poor people rely on

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carbon
give a downside of canadian tar sands

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tar sands: energy and water intensive to extract. increases Ccemissions to extract, produce and use

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carbon
how much energy does the USA vs france import🪼

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france: 46%
USA: 15%

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hazards
what does japan do the have good preparedness

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early warning systems
1st sept drills- good education
earthquake proof buildings- good regs
10m high tsunami wall

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hazards
name 2 LIC earthquakes and 2 HIC earthquakes

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LIC:
Haiti 2010 (300.000 dead and missing)
Pakistan 2005 (good NGO response)
HIC:
Japan 2011 (1000x more powerful than Haiti but lower death toll)
Loma Prieta 1989 (cypress freeway)

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12
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hazards
name 2 volcano case studies and a fun fact x

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eyjafjallajokull 2010 - affected flights over europe
montserrat - tourist industry collapsed + brain drain = unemployment

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13
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hazards
describe the indian ocean tsunami impacts

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affected 14 countries
5 million people affected
$10bill+ damage costs
no early warning system as countries were LIC’s - no money spent on protection
low lying coastlines

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water
describe the colorado basin situation
what’s the 2015 agreement

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water from here is distributed to 7 states and mexico
adjusts mexicos share depending if it’s in a drought or surplus

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water
what’s do singapore do to manage their small water supply

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cut leakage
have water meters
good water education
water harvesting and recycling
desalination of water

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16
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water
what happened in bolivia 1999

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they privatised their water
price of water rose by 20% of the average income of the urban poor
4 days of protests and the govt cancelled the contract

17
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water
describe chinas 2 water projects

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south to north transfer:
reduced water insecurity and supported economic development
thousands displaced from construction
construction polluted the river
3 gorges dam:
it was a hydroelectric dam for electricity
towns and villages flooded
1.3 million forced to move

18
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carbon
what’s the afforestation fact

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between 2010 and 2015 7.6 million hectares of forest were lost, but 4.3 million were gained. this is a net loss of 3.3 million - half that of the 1990’s

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carbon
how much has brazils deforestation rate changed by 2000

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it’s halved since 2000

20
Q

coasts
what percent of the maldives GDP is from tourism
what’s their biggest export

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33%
fish

21
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hazards
what happened in loma prieta

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1989
was built on landfill so liquefaction and cypress freeway collapsed
5:04pm

22
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hazards
haiti 2010

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300.000 dead and missing
countries didn’t wanna give aid bc fear of the corrupt govt
poor so no preparation or education
magnitude 7
poorly built buildings

23
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hazards
japan 2011

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magnitude 9
19,000 dead and missing
caused tsunami- Fukushima plant damaged- release radiation
electricity prices rose 20%

24
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carbon
what’s with russia and their gas conflicts

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russia wanted crimea port
eu wanted ukraine cuz 1/2 their energy from russia flows through ukraine
russia kept turning off gas
1/3 europes gas is from russia

25
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carbon
uk fuel protests?

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year 2000
was against tax increases
petrol and diesel rose- panic buying
blockaded and made it difficult to govt listened and lowered taxes back

26
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carbon
arctic - albedo effect and melting ice issues?

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loss of arctic albedo - melting=cant radiate=more melting
global warming - warm water flowing into arctic= melts ice
fresh water form ice into sea disrupts ecosystems

27
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carbon
what happened in kuwait 1991

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hussein ordered iraqi army to blow up oil fields in response to USA bombings
100s of wells, storage tanks and pipelines blown up