Coastal plain development is also booming, creating infrastructure that's more vulnerable than ever as sea levels rise with climate change.
The article features the important analysis of flood plain development by Nicholas Pinter, a geologist at Southern Illinois University, most notably in his 2005 commentary in Science magazine titled "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back on U.S. Floodplains".
The GIS currently covers the late Holocene coastal plain development of the Netherlands.
The city followed the characteristics riparian pattern along the natural levee, as compared with the stable waterfront development in Agra, the upland river terrace and plains development in Delhi and Lahore.
In the subalpine environment of the Pumice Plain rapid development is likely to be advantageous because of the short growing season, the continuous decline in food quality through the summer (Fig. 4, Appendix S2), and the relatively high risk of predation in high-density core areas [31], [32].
Restoring hydroperiod supports marsh plain vegetation development and is critical to successful restoration.
First, we must adapt our existing systems to the new climate, adding more robust power and cooling systems, redeveloping almost all of our agricultural processes, building new levees and barrier islands, clearing flood plains of development and resettling affected businesses and families.
More generally, climate-change experts predict increasingly extreme weather and rising sea levels as the planet warms.The impact of flooding can be blunted by more sensible house-building (designated flood plains in housing developments, for example, or raised floors, or even putting the main living spaces upstairs).
Low precipitation and overexploitation of groundwater resources in recent years have caused an extensive groundwater level decline in this plain prohibiting further development of the aquifer (Fig. 2).
Chenier plain and mudflat development in the South Flank of the Yangtze Delta are examined by multi-disciplinary methods over different spatiotemporal scales and changing human-earth interactions.
