Reason for Coastal Defences

Question 1

What percentage of the world live within the coast

Answer 1

Nearly 2.4 billion people (about 40% of the worlds population live within 100km of the coast

Question 2

What percent of us live in a coastline country

Answer 2

a third

Question 3

Coastline defences, tourism

Answer 3

Since 1985 tourism has been growing at an average of 9% per year

accounting for 10% of Global GDP and jobs
50% of all tourists travel to coastal areas.

Question 4

Fishing Coastline defences

Answer 4

97% OF FISHERMEN LIVE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE CONTRIBUTE US100 BILLION AND ABOUT 260 MILLION JOBS PER YEAR

Question 5

Ports coastline defences

Answer 5

Billions of tons of goods within hundreds of millions of containers transported by container ship each year.

Shipping accounts for 80% of total exports and imports

Question 6

Sea level coastal defence

Answer 6

As the ocean warms seawater expands and takes more space. Sea levels have risen about 23cms since 1880 and the most recent report from 26 to 77cms by 2100

Average annual losses from flooding in worlds biggest coastlines could rise to 1 trillion per year by 2050