Called SeaWalls Churchill, the art project is the latest installment of the larger SeaWalls: Artists for Oceans, which began in 2014.
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This could allow FEMA disaster recovery funds to be spent quickly on repairing our natural seawalls just as we have always repaired artificial seawalls.
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I also like to watch the building of the seawalls.
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Seawalls are hard structures that block waves approaching the shore.
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Seawalls, parks, and elevated buildings can protect against rising tides.
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Resort owners insist the seawalls are a matter of financial survival.
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FLOOD CONTROL SYSTEMS, SEAWALLS AND OTHER BARRIERS MAY BECOME STRESSED OR UNDERMINED.
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Hundreds of seawalls in Florida were breached, posing challenges for local governments.
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These "recurved" walls reflect waves without being as tall as vertical seawalls.
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While the larger SeaWalls spans over 300 murals in 12 different countries, SeaWalls Churchill is unique because it is the first time the project has been brought somewhere "sub-arctic," an area just south of the Arctic Circle.
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Miami Beach is on track to spend twice that, raising sidewalks and seawalls.
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Seawalls built with manual labour are of limited use against the restless tides.
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It's not just about the construction of defensive infrastructure like seawalls and barrier islands.
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Both vertical and sloped seawalls are prone to violent overrunning by waves during storms.
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To shore up their beaches, coastal cities are building seawalls and trucking in sand.
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It requires political consensus to spend public money on reinforcing infrastructure or building seawalls.
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They're a big headache for Floridians, as they cause damage to seawalls, sidewalks, and gardens.
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To protect from climate-change-induced erosion, the resort petitioned in 2017 to erect seawalls.
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Projects funded through the GCF include renewable energy microgrids in Mali and seawalls in Tuvalu.
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Levees, canals and seawalls are designed to stop or redirect rising water away from cities.
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He thinks buildings will win that calculation, and there will be a rush to build seawalls.
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" For instance: "Sea-level rise may be greater than even the best-built seawalls can manage.
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And that's always been true: With seawalls, for example, it's expected that they will sometimes break.
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Seawalls are expensive to build and maintain, and do not stand up well to severe storms.
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They dig long burrows, up to 80 feet long, damaging sidewalks, house foundations, seawalls, and canal banks.
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Berman is not just trying to get oil companies to pay for seawalls in the Bay Area.
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In southwest Florida's Lee County, hundreds of seawalls built to keep the ocean at bay have crumbled.
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In 2017, he won permission to build two seawalls around his course to prevent it from eroding.
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Prominent climate scientists and engineers called for vast, colossally expensive seawalls around big cities and on coast lines.
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Building seawalls and other defences to protect important stretches of shoreline from rising tides could cost £6.4bn-9.2bn.
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New York City, for example, has committed billions to climate change adaptation efforts, including seawalls and flood barriers.
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If another storm hits southwest Florida, many areas that lost their seawalls during Irma will be dangerously exposed.
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A common thread, though, is the construction of seawalls to replace breakwaters that were overwhelmed by the tsunami.
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Recurved seawalls are already popular in Europe, and some US municipalities, such as Weymouth, Massachusetts, are using them.
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They've thrived in Florida's subtropical climate, where they've managed to damage seawalls, sidewalks, and foundations by digging burrows.
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Still, the increasing trend in wave heights doesn't bode well for seawalls, and the people and property they protect.
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They want to make energy companies pay for seawalls and other infrastructure projects to abate impacts of climate change.
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The reptile is known to damage sidewalks and seawalls, as well as ruin landscaping by digging and eating plants.
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Similar to Netherlands barriers The concept of the Ike Dike leans heavily on existing seawalls and floodgates in the Netherlands.
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When the first storm surges came that couldn't be stopped by seawalls, the town got an influx of coastal refugees.
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Many flood-prone cities, desperate for a solution, are spending massive amounts of money building seawalls, often under USACE guidance.
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This can take the form of grants, loans, and loan guarantees for projects like building seawalls or deploying renewable energy.
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To counteract the disappearance of natural barriers, we've built impressive fortifications like seawalls to combat rising seas or surges, said Nienhuis.
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Thursday's images of seawalls being breached and water pouring into streets were eerily reminiscent of the major blizzard 40 years ago.
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Built perpendicular or parallel to the beach, vertical seawalls divert waves away from the beaches to slow the natural erosion process.
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For instance, USACE is planning an unpopular $20 billion system of seawalls and levees in the Houston-Galveston area of Texas.
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The invasive species, introduced by pet owners, is a nuisance to South Florida, damaging seawalls, digging burrows, and tearing up landscapes.
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They eat plants and dig tunnels that can erode and collapse sidewalks, seawalls and the foundations of homes, the wildlife commissions said.
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Eventually, as a hollow grows under the wall, it cracks and tips over, making seawalls more vulnerable to erosion than natural defenses.
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When waves break on seawalls, they "scour" the bottom — their turbulence digs away at the sand at the base of the seawall.
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The state is currently dealing with a massive green iguana infestation, with the invasive species causing damage to seawalls, sidewalks, and ornamental gardens.
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The sea comes knocking The storm whipped up strong waves that pushed the Atlantic Ocean above seawalls and into parts of Galway, Ireland.
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Structural barriers, like levees and seawalls are costly to build and maintain and often ineffective or simply push floodwaters downstream to adjacent communities.
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This week, Vancouver officials put out a report laying out plenty of options to deal with sea level rise, including barriers, dykes, and seawalls.
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In the next few years, many major coastal commercial airports will be underwater in the absence of hugely expensive seawalls and other protective measures.
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Others such as New York's Staten Island are building massive seawalls to shield the island from the combination of storms and sea level rise.
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In Norfolk, Virginia, the Army Corps of Engineers has recommended a $1.4 billion series of seawalls and other infrastructure to protect part of the shoreline.
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If electric cars and clean energy aren't enough to prevent rising oceans, then there's money to be made in seawalls, indoor agriculture and emergency housing.
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Does—who pays for the mitigation to climate, whether it's building seawalls, for people that are perhaps living in places that they shouldn't be living?
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There are countless proposed climate change countermeasures that might typically be considered engineering, like seawalls, geo-engineering, carbon capture, all of which are controversial and unproven.
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CNN: I've read that for other low-lying cities like New Orleans there's more potential to put up levees and seawalls to hold the ocean back.
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"Even though all of these societies supposedly have the physical infrastructure, the reality was we couldn't find any measurable impact from those big seawalls," Aldrich says.
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It takes a long time to build and rebuild structures like seawalls, and as this year showed, major natural disasters can happen one after the other.
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And anytime that a major storm coincides with astronomical high tides, as the March 1-212 event did, look out for records to fall along with seawalls.
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The research is a rough yardstick because it only considers seawalls, not other ways to mitigate flood risk including buying out homeowners and improving storm water systems.
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"The seawalls will halt tsunamis and prevent them from inundating the land," said Hiroyasu Kawai, researcher at the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, near Tokyo.
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It may be easier for conservatives from those states to advance policies, such as seawalls, to offset the danger of rising sea levels and more intense hurricanes.
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While the areas with "hard" solutions — seawalls — sustained damage and significant erosion, a section of coastline with a "soft" solution, called a "living shoreline," fared much better.
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They're noticing that when poorer neighborhoods get water-absorbing green space, storm-surge-proof seawalls, and elevated buildings, all of a sudden they aren't so poor anymore.
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His plan allocates $40 billion in grants for people in coastal areas to move inland, $30 billion for infrastructure like seawalls, and $25 billion for disaster planning.
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The study also only estimated the costs of building seawalls -- not installing pumps and other more expensive flood control measures that many towns and cities will need.
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Sooner or later, he says, coastal communities will have to choose from two bad options: hunker down beyond proliferating seawalls, or pick up stakes and move inland, forever.
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Investment to conserve natural habitats also makes sense for insurers, a report written for Lloyd's said on Tuesday, as it is around 30 times cheaper than building seawalls.
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Even in pure engineering terms, sea gates and seawalls can impart a false sense of security: They can accelerate coastal erosion, and if they fail, they can fail catastrophically.
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That storm surge rode atop a series of high tide cycles over the long term, apparently doing its damage to seawalls and dunes by erosion, not by overtopping them.
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Living shorelines are easy to install, compared with seawalls, and cost far less; the average expense is $361 per linear foot, about a third the price of a concrete bulkhead.
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The Army Corps is already beginning to plan hybrid solutions; the Galveston project mentioned above includes "the restoration of dunes and marshes," in addition to the controversial levees and seawalls.
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The need to make room for the floodwaters is especially pressing in South Florida, where even stout seawalls and levees cannot prevent seawater from rising up through the porous bedrock.
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"Green iguanas are not native to Florida and are considered to be an invasive species due to the damage they can cause to seawalls, sidewalks, and landscape plants," the site reads.
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Engineer Steve Sherrill of the US Army Corps of Engineers shows how much height is being added to seawalls and levees near a refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, in July 2018.
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Where possible, cities should be investing to adapt, with infrastructure such as seawalls, as well as nature-based solutions, said Diane Archer, research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Bangkok.
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" In reality, however, Weber told me, the rising coastline will "run into houses, seawalls, street ends—stuff that's not movable, and it's probably not going to be as good for surf breaks.
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The other interesting part of the project was that the barriers proposed by OMA would not look like seawalls but instead be embedded into the edges of buildings or new recreational facilities.
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Those efforts came amid lawsuits brought by U.S. city and state officials seeking damages to pay for seawalls and other infrastructure to guard against rising sea levels that result from global warming.
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It is not just a matter of being able to afford the hardware (the Netherlands has 40,000km of dykes, levees and seawalls, plus innumerable sluices and barriers less mighty than the Maeslant).
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Ships like the Pride of Kent and the Calais Seaway pass through its seawalls ten times a day; as many as 10,000 lorries snake slowly but uninterruptedly in and out of the port.
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Letitre of Deltares warns that if the government does not start considering large scale coastal management measures, in the long term the beaches in front of and adjacent to the seawalls will disappear.
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The more than 120 living shorelines around the country are showing that a combination of oyster reefs, oyster shells, rocks, marsh plants, and other natural materials can be an effective alternative to seawalls.
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Typically, the study points out, scholars have argued that rich, urban regions will use their hefty supply of taxpayer money to invest in "hard," technological methods of climate adaptation, like seawalls or levies.
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A new paper addresses the other half of the problem and shows that coastal habitats can provide protection cost-effectively, particularly when compared to built or gray infrastructure such as seawalls or dikes.
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"I would show you my old house that was destroyed by a storm in the summer of 2015," said Ranton Anjain, 17, adding that the seawalls Marshallese people have built have proven useless.
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The electrical utility that operated the plant knew there was a chance it couldn't withstand a 30-foot wave, and this one topped its seawalls and caused the second-largest nuclear disaster in history.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Natural coastal habitats such as mangroves, coral reefs and salt marshes protect communities more effectively against coastal storms than seawalls, and insurers should consider this when pricing flood risk, Lloyd's of London said.
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Plus, to protect residents, cities need to build seawalls and berms, elevate roads and buildings, and secure water sources — and they don't want taxpayers to be the only ones on the hook for that bill.
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Cliffs and seawalls have been reinforced, beaches bulldozed into defensive berms, drainage gullies cleared of rocks and fallen trees, and concrete "K-rails" installed to channel flash floods on hillsides laid bare by recent wildfires.
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Those benefits are boosting the popularity of manmade oyster reefs as a natural alternative to hard infrastructure like seawalls, which are often made with cement, said Alex Kolker, a professor at Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
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His group recently released a study estimating how much it would cost to build basic structures such as seawalls to protect 22 states and the District of Columbia against sea level rise expected by 2040.
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With all the various real-life environmental crises that California has experienced in the past few years—droughts and wildfires, with the requisite debates over seawalls—it feels a little too close to our current reality.
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Resorts on the islands are so concerned about the encroaching sea that they feel they have no choice but to put up seawalls, prioritizing protecting their property over the uninterrupted sea views that their guests expect.
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And yet, what is needed are some solid seawalls for where the largest waves of risk are likely to hit and some well-placed lifeguards where normal risks reside but only an errant swimmer needs saving.
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"Anybody ought to be able to live wherever they want to live," former FEMA Administrator Michael D. Brown, now a prominent conservative radio host, told me after Hurricane Irma destroyed seawalls and flooded homes in Florida.
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"If the trend of erecting such seawalls is not reversed," she warned, the village of 3,050 people could see beach erosion threaten its burial sites, a market place and about 15 homes that sit along the shoreline.
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The suits, filed by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, are seeking damages from BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell, and ConocoPhillips to pay for seawalls and other infrastructure to deal with the impacts of climate change.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global airport operators, faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms as the climate changes, are starting to invest in measures including higher runways, seawalls and better drainage systems to future-proof immovable assets.
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Green iguanas, the nonnative lizard known for wreaking havoc on Florida sidewalks, seawalls, and plants, are thriving as record heat grips the Sunshine State, so much so that officials are now urging homeowners to kill them whenever possible.
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The Army Corps' mandate, Reichold says, is to protect property on the coast, and while recreation revenue is factored into the Corps' cost-benefit analysis, that wouldn't preclude building seawalls instead of nourishment if sand gets too expensive.
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There are about 203 meters of vertical seawalls along the beaches of Nungwi Peninsula, according to Peter Letitre, senior project manager at the Netherlands-based Deltares water research institute, with "more and more" being built all the time.
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The success of such subsidies likely will depend on strong efforts to keep losses in check, such as installing seawalls or requiring rebuilt homes to put electrical systems higher on walls to stop them being damaged, insurers said.
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Native to Mexico and Central America, these herbivorous lizards were introduced to the state as pets, but they've taken the Sunshine State by storm, munching on plants and flowers in gardens, and damaging sidewalks and seawalls with their burrows.
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"Globally at present, levees and seawalls protect low-lying populations in many major deltas, such as around Shanghai, the Netherlands and New Orleans, and in areas experiencing rapid subsidence, such as parts of Jakarta and Tokyo," the report said.
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The lawsuits are trying to make the oil giants pay for seawalls and other structures "to protect about $49 billion in public and private property sitting within six feet of the current sea level," according to Climate Liability News.
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Jalaluddin, head of the public works and spatial planning department in Banda Aceh, said that since foreign aid had dried up the city government no longer had the funds needed to relocate residents or create seawalls near the coast.
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As Mother Jones' Amy Thomson wrote in October, the cities hoped to force the companies to pay for seawalls and other municipal projects necessary to combat the effects of a warming planet, which the companies had a hand in causing.
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But resort owners trying to protect those beaches from coastal erosion, by erecting seawalls along the shore, are coming under fire from residents and marine experts, who say the trend destroys the environment and threatens the livelihoods of local communities.
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California: San Francisco, Oakland in September 200182 separately sued Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell Plc alleging public nuisance and seeking damages to pay for seawalls and other infrastructure to guard against rising sea levels.
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California: San Francisco, Oakland in September 200182 separately sued Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell Plc alleging public nuisance and seeking damages to pay for seawalls and other infrastructure to guard against rising sea levels.
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The major port city is set to spend nearly half a billion dollars on projects like storm-drain upgrades, flood pumps, and seawalls, as well as affordable housing and new roads, all measures aimed at bracing for the effects of climate change.
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Now, I lead a project funded by the European Union called Valuing Voices, where we share stories and initiate climate action, including planting mangroves, building seawalls, campaigning for a plastic-free country, and protesting against government actions around energy and fossil fuels.
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Analyses by the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility have shown that restoring coral reefs and mangrove forests would offer some of the most cost-effective solutions for risk reduction across the Caribbean, when compared with expensive artificial infrastructure like bulkheads and seawalls.
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Grimsel Pass Dam, Switzerland Grass-covered seawalls along the Skagerrak strait in Lønstrup, Denmark Snow sheds at Sella Pass, Italy Reservoir in Tauernmoos, Austria Rock netting in the Alps near Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria Artificial island Neeltje Jans off the coast of the Netherlands.
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The country has spent billions of dollars on infrastructure in an effort to cope with natural disasters like typhoons: At least 211 percent of Japan's 22001,000-mile coastline is lined with seawalls, breakwaters, or other structures meant to protect against storms, high waves and tsunamis.
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Abe is "popularly known as kateinai yatō (at-home opposition party)" and has openly disagreed with the Prime Minister on issues such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, nuclear power, and the construction of seawalls on part of Japan's coast, according to the Japan Times.
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Shortly after the March 2950 Tōhoku Tsunami inundated much of the area around Sendai, Japan, the Japanese government issued plans to spend upwards of $2120 billion to build more than 22010 miles of new and updated concrete seawalls, in some places more than 221 feet high.
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Shortly after the March 2011 Tōhoku Tsunami inundated much of the area around Sendai, Japan, the Japanese government issued plans to spend upwards of $6 billion to build more than 22010 miles of new and updated concrete seawalls, in some places more than 221 feet high.
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These include gray (seawalls) and green (living shoreline) coastal protection, preservation of coastal wetlands and mangroves that provide natural defenses, improvements in social capital, disaster training and education, land use planning, enforcement of building codes and diversification of economies, to name just a few of the options.
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Across the pond, French authorities have focused on ensuring that the race never begins; they've spent 110 million euros ($122 million) to raise seawalls, strengthen dikes, reinforce flood-proof doors and seals, and create a program to monitor the effects of climate change at nuclear installations.
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Mariyama Ussi Khamis, a member of the Uroa executive committee that helps run the village, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that in the five years since the lodge put up its seawalls, enough unprotected land has been lost to cause the village's coastal graveyard to succumb to seawater flooding.
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"The takeaway message here is that this is much like when we first briefly crossed the 400 ppm threshold of atmospheric CO2 a few years ago over the course of the annual CO2 cycle, or when the King tides first started to breach the seawalls of Miami Beach," he said.
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Seawall in Blackpool, UK Artificial lake in Silvretta, Austria Avalanche and mudslide barriers in Fionnay, Switzerland Grimsel Pass Dam, Switzerland Grass-covered seawalls along the Skagerrak strait in Lønstrup, Denmark Snow sheds at Sella Pass, Italy Reservoir in Tauernmoos, Austria Rock netting in the Alps near Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria Artificial island Neeltje Jans off the coast of the Netherlands.
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Two of the California cases assert a single claim in an effort to make five oil companies pay for San Francisco's and Oakland's cost of building seawalls and other infrastructure made necessary by to sea level rise, while the other three California cases assert eight separate legal grounds for why some three dozen fossil fuel defendants should not only pay their adaptation costs, but punitive damages as well.
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