Vulnerable Coastlines, LECZ's, SIDS Flashcards
What are the 4 physical factors that increase vulnerability?
- Magnitude
- Duration
- Predictability
- Regularity
What are the 8 social and economic factors that increase vulnerability?
- Wealth
- Education
- Governments
- Age
- Health
- Population density
- Time of day/week/year
- Emergency services
What does LECZ stand for?
Low Elevation Coastal Zones
What LECZ have you studied?
Maldives and Egypt
What does SIDS stand for?
Small Island Developing States
What SIDS have you studied?
Maldives
What are the 3 main impacts of a sea level rise in the Nile Delta?
Cities such as Alexandria will be underwater, There will be more Salination, Environmental Refugees
What are the impacts of sea level rise on the Maldives?
Environmental Refugees, Flooding of beach resorts, damaging the tourism that the economy depends on and Islands may disappear in next century
How can the risks of sea level rise on the Maldives be managed?
A 3m high wall built around Malé, Dykes could be built to hold back the sea and smaller islands evacuated
Why are coastal communities in the future vulnerable?
- 200 million people worldwide live in coastal communities this is due to increase
- 1m sea level rise predicted
- people will have to find ways to either adapt or abandon coastal areas
- governments cannot defend everything
- increased coastal erosion
- more tropical storms
Why is monitoring extreme weather important?
Being able to predict extreme weather
Why is hazard mapping important?
To know what areas will be effected
Who reacts to hazards and have had the training and resources to deal with it?
Emergency services
In the UK who monitors and makes flood forecasts?
The Flood Forecasting Centre
Who informs the UK public of these forecasts?
The Environmental Agency
