A seasonal comparison of litter impacts along the Viña del Mar - Concón coastal strip, Valparaiso region of Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 112854
Author(s):  
José Barría-Herrera ◽  
Hernán Vergara-Cortés ◽  
Manuel Contreras-López ◽  
Nelson Rangel-Buitrago
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Strip

scholarly journals Sources And Movement of Icebergs in the South-West Ross Sea, Antarctica

1989 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 85-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Keys ◽  
Dennis Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Small Proportion ◽  
Ross Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Ice Shelf ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Ross Ice Shelf ◽  
South West ◽  
Fast Ice ◽  
Western Side ◽  
Coastal Strip

The shape, surface features, composition, and thickness of icebergs trapped annually in a 200 km long coastal strip of fast ice have been examined to determine their sources and movement. The thin western ice front of the Ross Ice Shelf seems to produce about 40% of the icebergs while local glaciers produce the remainder. The ice-shelf icebergs are carried west towards Ross Island then north up the western side of the Ross Sea. A small proportion of them gets trapped mainly by grounding on shallow areas of the sea floor which protrude across the regional long-shore currents.

scholarly journals Damage in the Westport area

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-129
Author(s):  
T. M. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Commercial Buildings ◽  
Considerable Damage ◽  
Coastal Strip

(a) The area concerned in this report is the coastal strip from the Buller River northwards to Maramea. The main town in the area is Westport which is a Borough with 1300 dwelling houses. Many of the buildings go back to the early 1900’s and fewer new houses and commercial buildings have been built in latter years than in most New Zealand towns of a similar age. (b) Within the last 40 years Westport has suffered three earthquakes which have caused considerable damage to buildings - Buller 1929 - Westport 1962 - Inangahua 1968. The latter two earthquakes occurred after the introduction of the Earthquake & War Damage Act. From the 1962 earthquake more than 1500 claims were received from the district while in 1968 more than 2200 claims were registered. Probably within the Borough of Westport the number of claims from both the shocks was about the same. However in the 1968 shock there were many more claims from the townships further north of Westport - Waimangaroa, Granity, Hector, Nikau, Denniston, Seddonville and Karamea.

Quantity and Quality of Groundwater in the Campo De Dalias (Almeria, Se Spain)

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pulido Bosch ◽  
F. Navarrete ◽  
L. Molina ◽  
J. L. Martinez-Vidal
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Water Table ◽  
Fruit And Vegetables ◽  
Agricultural Area ◽  
Se Spain ◽  
Great Productivity ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Coastal Strip

The Campo de Dalías is the most economically important agricultural area in the whole of the Province of Almeria. A benign climate combined with the expertise of the market gardeners and their intensive cultivation in plastic hot-houses of out-of-season fruit and vegetables has turned a stony wasteland into an area of great productivity. The main water supply comes from a series of wells drilled into the subterranean aquifers running through the local rocks, a geometrically complex succession of Triassic limestones and dolomites, Miocene conglomerates and calcareous sandstones, Pliocene calcarenites and Quaternary gravels, sands and silts. The annual influx into the aquifers has been calculated as being around 50 Hm3, while at the present day more than 100 Hm3 are being taken out during the same period. This over exploitation of the resources is causing an inexorable descent in the water table, which is leading to marine intrusion in those aquifers nearest the sea. The main aquifer-bearing units are Balanegra and Aguadulce, composed essentially of Triassic, Alpujarride carbonates, and the Balerma-Las Marinas unit, made, up of Pliocene calcarenites. In the water from some of the wells in the Aguadulce unit more than 10,000 microS/cm have been measured at some distance from the coast, while in the Balanegra unit there are a large number of conoids below sea level, although marine intrusion is at present limited to a fairly narrow coastal strip.

scholarly journals Land Use Changes and Their Perception in the Hinterland of Barranquilla, Colombian Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6729
Author(s):  
Schubert ◽  
Rauchecker ◽  
Caballero Calvo ◽  
Schütt
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Participatory Gis ◽  
Site Field ◽  
Coastal Strip

The coastal strip of the western peri-urban area of Barranquilla in the Atlántico Department (Colombia) is experiencing changes in human-environment interactions through infrastructure, residential, and tourism projects in a vulnerable landscape. In the hilly area, fragments of biodiverse tropical dry forest still exist in various states of conservation and degradation. To understand the interrelated social, economic, and ecological transformations in the area, we analyzed land use change on the local scale including the local community’s perception, because the local community is a key actor for sustainable land use. For the analysis of the interrelated social, economic, and ecological processes, we combined visual interpretation of high-resolution satellite imagery, on-site field land use mapping, and a spatial statistical analysis of the distribution of land use classes with in-depth interviews and a participatory GIS workshop, thus benefitting from the complementary methodological strengths of these approaches. The case study is the rural community of El Morro, which exhibits the typical social, economic, and ecological changes of the coastal strip of the western peri-urban area of Barranquilla. The local community perceives a continuous loss of forest area, but observations from on-site field mapping cannot confirm this linear trend. We observed a gradual replacement of traditional land uses such as smallholder agriculture, charcoal production, and cattle breeding by services for tourism, gated community projects for urban dwellers, and infrastructure projects; these spatial developments have several characteristics of rural gentrification. We conclude that the drivers of environmental degradation have changed and the degradation increased. The development projects of external companies have been rejected by the local community and have induced environmental consciousness among community members. Thus, the local community has become an advocate for sustainable land use in the study area.

scholarly journals Trapping and shooting of Corncrakes Crex crex on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Baha el Din ◽  
W. Salama ◽  
A. Grieve ◽  
R. E. Green
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Wide Strip ◽  
Average Proportion ◽  
Trapping Methods ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Coastal Strip

SummaryFieldworkers counted traps, guns and nets used for bird trapping in sample sections of a 1 km wide strip of land adjacent to the shore on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt in the autumn of 1994. These data were used to estimate the number of traps, guns and nets in use in the whole 1 km coastal strip. Information obtained by interviewing bird trappers was used to estimate the number of Corncrakes taken per trap, net and gun in the 1993 and 1994 seasons and from this the total number taken was about 9,000 and 14,000 respectively. Trapping methods and intensity varied with locality but the taking of Corncrakes was widespread. It was estimated that about 9,000 people were involved in trapping and shooting in the coastal strip. The average proportion of the European Corncrake population taken per year on the coast was estimated to be in the range 0.5–2.7%, though this range would be lower if, as seems probable, Corncrakes from Asia are among those passing through Egypt. Further surveys are required to estimate the numbers of Corncrakes taken further inland.

Estimation of depth to fresh–salt water interface and its implications for sustainable groundwater resource management: a case study of the Coastal strip of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (10) ◽  
pp. 6639-6662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohana Mtoni ◽  
Ibrahimu Chikira Mjemah ◽  
Kristine Martens ◽  
Charles Bakundukize ◽  
Paul Enock Mtoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Groundwater Resource ◽  
Water Interface ◽  
Coastal Strip

Where East Meets West: The Last Stand of Finns and Karelians in Contemporary Karelia?

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Laine
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
White Sea ◽  
The White Sea ◽  
The West ◽  
Lake Onega ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Western Half ◽  
Russian Karelia ◽  
Coastal Strip

The northwestern flank of the Slavic expanse of settlement, the territory of today's Russian Karelia, constitutes an age-old site of Slavic-Baltic-Finnic contact. The Karelians and Vepsians, two Finno-Ugrian groups, are a part of the indigenous population of Karelia. The settlements of the former are found mainly in the western half of the present-day Karelian Republic. The Vepsians live on the southwestern coastal strip of Lake Onega, south of the capital of the republic, Petrozavodsk. Vepsian settlements are also found outside Karelia, in Vologda and Leningrad provinces. For several centuries, the Russians have formed a majority of the inhabitants both near Lake Onega and on the west coast of the White Sea. In contrast to the Karelians, Vepsians and Russians, Finns can be considered newcomers to Karelia.

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