Sentence examples for coastline development from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, the mushrooming growth of Australia's resources sector and rapid coastline development may render much of Burke's rhetoric moot.

Nonetheless, the environmental changes of the Chiaia coast during the last 2000 years clearly show volcanic tectonic perturbations influencing coastline development up to the modern era.

On Friday, a federal government strategic analysis of the Great Barrier Reef called for a more holistic approach to the health of the ecosystem by considering the overall impact of coastline development.

It has since been transformed into part of a glittering, 22km-long coastline development, poised to place Malaysia firmly on the world's luxury property and tourism map.

The steady rise in sea level is unlikely to cause flooding directly as coastline developments are designed to withstand the larger ebb and flow of the tides.

They also provide several human benefits, including food, tourism and flood protection for coastline developments.

Furthermore anthropogenic developments of relatively large scale are common in the region, and not only directly impact the coastline in development areas but also alter the physical processes and therefore indirectly impact additional coastal areas.

BEIJING Along China's coastline, rapid development has transformed marshes and mudflats into ports and urban sprawl; a line of concrete seawalls and sandbags now stretches longer than China's Great Wall.

In the 1980s, he relocated to Queensland, the home of the "white shoe brigade", a clique of nouveau riche conservative businessmen who, in cahoots with local politicians, specialised in shady land deals and ostentatious coastline property developments.

Plagued by habitat destruction due to high human densities along coastlines, sprawling rural development, and rapidly developing estuarine fisheries industry, coastal forest reptiles are experiencing rapid declines.

The city is subsiding, and the authorities there are investing in sea defenses; but they also persist in filling in low-lying coastline for more development.