342 research outputs found
Stop the BHP Billition LNG Terminal
No full textWebpage from the California Coastal Protection Network regards the significant negative environmental impacts that the LNG terminal can do if implemented on the Oxnard and Malibu coasts. Also lists how one can help to prevent it from happening
"Terminate It!" Logo
No full text"Terminate It!" logo used in rallies and protests against BHP Billiton's LNG terminal
2007 Priority Dates and Events
No full textE-mail from Susan Jordan, Director of CCNP, to Coastal Advocate members giving a list of important dates and events to attend in 2007. This is an effort to prevent BHP from creating a oil platform of the Ventura County coast
Global Warming and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)
No full textA fact sheet provided by the Environmental Defense Center and California Coastal Protection Network that talks about global warming and how LNG could potentially add on to the growing problem
Environmental Groups Challellenge LNG Project
No full textEnvironmental groups, California Coastal Protection Network and Environmental Defense Center, challenge the development of LNG project claiming that they are not complying with the Deepwater Port Act. As well as describe the negative long term environmental effects of LNG emissions unto Ventura and Los Angeles counties
Letter to Governer Arnold Schwartzenegar from EDC
No full textLetter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from Environmental Defense Center (EDC) on behalf of the California Coastal Protection Network (CCPN) requesting that he disapprove of BHP Billiton's proposed Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and lists reasons why. Signed by EDC's Chief Counsel, Linda Krop
California Environmental Education Interagency Network (CEEIN)
No full textCEEIN is a consortium of environmental educators representing California state departments, boards, and commissions whose responsiblity is to protect California's environment. This portal provides links to California state agencies that provide education/outreach services or post educational materials. The agencies include the California Department of Education, California Environmental Protection Agency, Water Resources Control Board, Coastal Commission, Department of Fish and Game, and many others. Educational levels: High school, Intermediate elementary, Middle school, Primary elementary, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
Uncertainty assessment in coastal morphology prediction with a bayesian network
No full textIn the present time of sea-level rise and climate change a global shift has occurred toward sandy coastal protection measures and Building with Nature. These type of protection measures impose extra uncertainty on the instantaneous state of the coastal system over time for which present deterministic forecasting techniques are not capable of providing necessary information on uncertainties and hence could display a false sense of accuracy and skill. At present in long term morphological modeling a full systemic approach for uncertainty assessment has not yet been applied. This paper investigates the use of a Bayesian Network as a tool for uncertainty assessment in decadal scale morphological modeling for the evolution of a mega nourishment at the Dutch North-Holland coast, the Hondsbossche Dunes (HBD). The Bayesian Network is trained with an existing set of model data and field data of one year bed development. The Bayesian Network successfully transfers the bandwidth in input variables, model uncertainty and calibration uncertainty to an uncertainty bandwidth around the output parameter of choice.Coastal EngineeringManagement SupportSafety and Security Scienc
Coastal land use in the Maltese islands: a description and appraisal
No full textThe area of the Maltese Islands is 316 km , and with an official coastal length of 180 km(^2) possess a high ratio of coastal length to area. The physical properties of the coast include a highly indented and largely accessible coastline having a low sloping profile, on the north, east and south-east littoral of Malta, presenting inlets, bays and deep harbours. Most of the recreational, industrial and coastal residential areas are situated around these areas together with a wide range of fortifications and military defensive structures built as part of the coastal defensive network of Malta over the last five centuries. In contrast, the other parts of the coast, including Gozo, consists of a largely inaccessible coastline made up of cliffs and boulder scree slopes with the few indentations marking sandy beaches. These areas have a high aesthetic quality. The rapid pace of development over last half-century has witnessed an economic transformation from an economy based on British military spending to one based on the development of coastal areas for marine-related services, tourism and residential and second-home development. Coastal land use conflicts have intensified with economic development and as people have sought to make a more use of the coast. This thesis is concerned with the evaluation of the coastal land use in the Maltese Islands. A historical overview of the coast is first presented, then a methodology for the mapping, surveying and estimation of the land uses along the coastal zone of the Maltese Islands is developed. This is based on a number of coastal field surveys that the author participated in between 1989 and 1998. The coastal zone was divided into sixteen segments and mapping is covered by sixteen land uses. The main results were that coastal development was centred in areas where a high natural coastal indentation and good physical accessibility of the coast were present, these, in turn, gave rise to land use conflict. In addition, civil engineering works and modifications such as rock-cutting, jetties, breakwaters and, in densely populated areas, promenades, intensified land use conflict. A notable difference in the type of coastal development processes to the north (tourism) and south (industry) of the Great Fault is evident. The thesis also includes the part played by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority in influencing coastal land uses, the main land use modifications proposed in the European Union accession talks and a brief assessment of the land use situation in selected localities in 2003
Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the People’s Republic of China – An Assessment of Structural Impacts on Decision-making Processes
No full textIntegrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) forms a generally accepted concept to ensure sustainable development in the coastal zone. The implementation of the ICZM framework as formulated, e.g. by the World Coast Conference, is often constrained by the political system within which it should be applied. This is the case in the People’s Republic of China. This study takes a political science perspective based on approaches inherent in neo-institutional and administrative theories. This way the relevant political structures are explained and the impacts that the transformation of the socio-economic system had on institutions are located. This is extended by the reflection of related political power distribution. This part of the analysis mainly contains existing knowledge on (integrated) CZM in China but evaluates it from a so far neglected point of view. The second part of the paper is taking the successful local ICZM approach of Xiamen and a proposed approach for Shanghai as an example to show that the adaptation of a working approach to other parts of the country is impossible without modifications to the organizational structures of decision-making and implementation. So far the literature emphasizes mostly modifications in content. An important reason for structural elements being comparably important is the choice of ICZM issues and the local power distribution. It furthermore shows that these are also the determining factors obstructing the upscaling of a local approach to the national level, a fact which constrains the formulation of national guidelines in China and leaves only the bottom-up alternative of introducing ICZM to China – a hard task that leaves a disproportional responsibility to the local governmental level.Integrated Coastal Zone Management, People’s Republic of China, Political Structure, Power Distribution, Jurisdictional Overlaps
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