Dimmer, who has written extensively about the reconstruction of the tsunami-hit north-east coast, noted Japan's complex and sophisticated engineering solutions to disaster mitigation, but said other countries could learn from its centuries-old experience in community-based disaster risk reduction and preparedness.
To be sure, New York is not unseating its West Coast counterpart, notes Ms. Saxenian.
On one of his trips to the northern coast, Rebus notes the landscape is unlikely to have changed in a thousand years.
The effect was stronger near the coast, Balmford notes, but because dried and smoked fish is sold far inland, the impact was seen across the country.
The last edition of the paper left the foundry at 3am for the south coast, the bill notes: "If we miss the trains we lose sales in a most important area".
Numerous seaside resorts have made the coast a noted tourist area.
This stretch of Australian coast is noted for its tropical climate and its remoteness.
Describing, in a letter written from the Hebrides, the manner in which the waves break on the Scottish coast, he noted down, in the form of a musical symbol, the opening bars of The Hebrides (1830 32).
Northward, the cliff coast is noted for its amber, a fossilized resin that formed a valued item of medieval trade throughout the Baltic and as far afield as Venice, which was reached by the "Amber Route" via Kraków (Poland and Viennaa.
East Coast, she noted, makes one of the highest payments to the public purse, receives the least subsidy and is the only route on which all profits are reinvested in services.
