key concepts linking to coasts
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- Created on: 28-09-18 14:22
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- Concepts linking to coasts
- Adaptation- how ecosystems respond, settleback settlements on lowland coasts and preventing vulnerable new development locating on floodplains
- Causality- torrential rainfall leads to effects eg flooding etc, climate warming means glaciers melting increasing sea levels
- Equilibrium- Global climate change stabilising-glaciers, snow and ice etc
- Feedback- response to changing systems. increased evaporation, colder temps, higher volume of water vapour in the atmosphere
- Mitigation- less natural hazards on people, investment in sea defences (sea walls, groins) emergency planning
- Resilience- environmental systems resisting, coping with disturbance, resisting damage, recovering from damage. recovering from natural disasters
- Risk- outcomes of shock or hazard, natural hazard risks, probability of occurrence, magnitude and vulnerability of the local people, exacerbating risk of climate change
- Systems- the ecosystems that live there, different sizes, effects, impacts etc. 'coastal system' open and closed systems
- Thresholds- 'tipping points' global warming increasing temperature damaging and irreversible consequences, soil erosion etc
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