California has just completed a landmark effort to assess the state's worst-case tsunami danger. Now emergency response officials, and even some planners, are considering how to keep the state's coastal populations safe.
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Natural
Posts in this category are about Natural Capital, which includes the core and crust of the earth, the biosphere itself, and the upper layers of the atmosphere. Natural Capital provides a wide variety of valuable Ecosystem Services including flood control, climate stabilization, and maintenance of soil fertility. Also, ecosystems provide a wide variety of valuable benefits that have significant economic value.
Ecosystem health can be maintained by applying appropriate land-use planning, encouraging businesses to recycle materials, and engaging federal and state land administrators to manage lands in ways that adhere to objectives for sustainability.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
Coastal Areas Prepare For The Other 'Big One'
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(0)Planners' Mistakes in Framing the Problems of Traffic
This research paper focuses on how land use planners are continuing to plan and develop cities and urban areas in ways that increase traffic and congestion.
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BIODIVERSITY: Lucrative Shark Trade Under Scrutiny
WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (IPS) - As climate change transforms the acidity and oxygen
levels of the world's waters with devastating effects for
some marine species, others are facing an even more immediate
threat from human consumption.
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