Sentence examples for coastal settlements from inspiring English sources

Coastal settlements and the historic human intervention of coastal areas has led to increasing stresses in these zones (Halpern and others 2008), requiring greater integration of socioeconomic and environmental management (Turner and others 1996).

Evidence of Sunni Islam appears only in later coastal settlements.

On most of Vanuatu's islands, unpaved roads link coastal settlements; there are few interior roads.

As we flew inland, coastal settlements gave way to hamlets, fields, and slow-moving brown rivers.

Yet it has a population of just 57,000, mostly Inuit scattered in tiny coastal settlements.

Much of the evidence of earlier coastal settlements has vanished under the waves, he said.

Gas is rationed in New Jersey, where stretches of coastal settlements simply no longer exist.

The writings of man contain frequent mention of the devastation of coastal settlements by sudden great waves.

During the 19th century the area around the coastal settlements was drawn increasingly into the British economic sphere.

From about 1600, individual coastal settlements began to lose contact with one another, some becoming depopulated or breaking up.

UPDATE, 3.30pm local time: Emergency services personnel have evacuated the predominantly Indigenous coastal settlements of Ski Beach and Wallaby Beach.