Essays about: "rising sea level"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 59 essays containing the words rising sea level.

  1. 26. Mapping Future Canadian Arctic Coastlines

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Pia Blake; [2021]
    Keywords : Isostatic Rebound; Canadian Arctic; Climate Change; RCP scenarios; Coastlines; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The Canadian Arctic currently faces changing coastlines due isostatic rebound and climate change-driven sea-levels rising. This thesis seeks to answer how local coastlines will change over time under different Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios, where errors in modelled coastlines come from, and how much of an impact isostatic rebound has on sea-levels compared to climate-change driven changes. READ MORE

  3. 27. A Closer Look at What Sweden is Doing to Achieve SDG 13

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Gustav Skoog; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development Goal 13; Sweden; Agenda 2030; Local Sustainability Planning; Hållbarhetsmål 13; Sverige; Agenda 2030; Lokal Hållbarhetsplanering;

    Abstract : Climate change and its impacts are currently affecting countries all around the world. Sweden is facing an increased risk of landslides, floods and a rising sea level that will cause major damage to infrastructure in the future. READ MORE

  4. 28. A Comparison of the Ecological, Social and Economic Sustainability in Adaptation Strategies in The Maldives and Kiribati

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Charlotte Blomberg; Sandra Blomvall; [2020]
    Keywords : Maldives; Kiribati; sustainable development; sea level rise; climate change; adaptation; SIDS; NAPA;

    Abstract : Havsnivån stiger över hela världen på grund av termisk expansion och smältande glaciärer orsakade av den globala uppvärmningen. Maldiverna och Kiribati är några av de lägst liggande atolländerna i världen vilket gör dem särskilt utsatta för den förväntade havsnivåhöjningen. READ MORE

  5. 29. Landscaping for promoting biodiversity and recreation in land-based solar panel parks : a project for IKEA Industry in Poland

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Nizhuma Hasan; Rosalie Selhorst; [2020]
    Keywords : landscape; biodiversity; IKEA industry; ground-mounted solar panel park; landscape park; renewable energy; Photovoltaic PV power station; alley cropping; sandy soil;

    Abstract : The world, because of the mass extinction of the natural species, will be doomed one day. Climate change and global warming are the prime suspects for the ongoing icecaps melting, sea levels rising, and biodiversity abolishment. READ MORE

  6. 30. Utökat aktörskap i stadsplaneringsprocessen : det materiellas roll i klimatanpassningsplaneringen i Nyhamnen

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Julia Schneider; [2020]
    Keywords : assemblage; ekofeministisk teori; havsnivåhöjning; klimatanpassning; Nyhamnen; socio-materiella relationer; climate adaption; ecofeminist theory; sea-level rise; sociomaterial relations;

    Abstract : Havsnivån stiger och anpassning i kustnära områden är en allt viktigare planeringsfråga. Redan idag krävs nya samarbetskonstellationer för att hantera klimatrisker. Studiens syfte är att bidra till att bredda planerarperspektivet och fördjupa kunskap om hur fler värden kan främjas i klimatanpassningsplaneringen. READ MORE