The Impact of Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change on Department of Defense Installations on Atolls in the Pacific Ocean

The Impact of Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change on Department of Defense Installations on Atolls in the Pacific Ocean
Author: Department of Defense
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792988431

Released August 2017 The Impact of Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change on DoD Installations on Atolls in the Pacific Ocean This investigation focused on Roi-Namur Island, which is on the northernmost tip of Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Physics-based numerical oceanographic and hydrogeologic models were used to forecast how future sea-level rise and climate change will affect wave-driven flooding of the island and evaluate its resulting impacts to infrastructure and freshwater resources. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com Why buy an eBook when you can access data on a website for free? HYPERLINKS Anyone that has worked with large scientific documents knows how difficult it is to search to find that one bit of critical information. Yes, the book is available as a PDF file, but do you really want to search a PDF document manually? (Unfortunately, downloading the free sample file at Amazon.com does not include this feature. You have to buy a copy to get that functionality, but as inexpensive as this is, it's worth it.) Kindle allows you to do word search and Page Flip (temporary place holder takes you back when you want to go back and check something). Load this copy onto your Kindle, PC, iPad, Android Tablet, Nook, or iPhone (download the FREE kindle App from the APP Store) and you have an easily searchable copy. We recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. It's inexpensive, has long battery life (weeks) and can hold a lot of documents. https: //usgovpub.com

The Impact of Sea-level Rise and Climate Change on Department of Defense Installations on Atolls in the Pacific Ocean (RC-2334)

The Impact of Sea-level Rise and Climate Change on Department of Defense Installations on Atolls in the Pacific Ocean (RC-2334)
Author: Curt D. Storlazzi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2017
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN:

The objective of this study is to (1) provide basic understanding and specific information on storm, ocean surface wave-induced inundation of atoll islets that house Department of Defense (DoD) installations and (2) assess the resulting impact of sea-level rise and storm-wave inundation on infrastructure and freshwater availability under a variety of conditions based on historic information, sea-level rise scenarios, and global climate model (GCM) wind, wave, and precipitation output. Products will include information on the timing, frequency, and spatial impact of such events at present and in the future. Tipping points, or those times at which the impact of infrequent events becomes cumulative and therefore more damaging, also will be defined. This information is needed to develop climate-change adaptation plans for DoD infrastructure and associated water resources, as well as to develop adequate response strategies by providing the range of parameters under which infrastructure and freshwater supplies may realistically be threatened from sea-level rise and storm-induced inundation. This investigation will be focused on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This four-year study is designed to provide new understanding of how atoll islets may be affected by plausible rises in regional sea level and climate change. Such information will have broad application to atolls worldwide. One direct application will be critical information about DoD-managed atolls, both active (e.g., Kwajalein, Wake, Diego Garcia) and decommissioned (e.g., Midway, Johnston) that are most vulnerable to sea-level rise and climate change impacts over the next 100 years. This will provide the understanding needed to prioritize funding for response efforts and/or further research (e.g., impacts to threatened and endangered species). Additionally, this study will provide new understanding of the impact of climate change on atoll systems and its potential for geopolitical consequences caused by the need to possibly relocate atoll island-states throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The Draw of the Sea

The Draw of the Sea
Author: Wyl Menmuir
Publisher: Aurum Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0711273960

Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a book about the fishermen, surfers, swimmers, beachcombers, conservationists, sailors and boatbuilders who make their living on the Cornish Coast. Since the earliest stages of human development, the sea has fascinated and entranced us. It feeds us, sustaining communities and providing livelihoods, but it also holds immense destructive power which can take all those away in an instant. It connects us to far away places, offering the promise of new lands and voyages of discovery, but also shapes our borders, carving divisions between landmasses and eroding the very ground beneath our feet. In this beautifully-written meditation on what it is that draws us to the waters' edge, author Wyl Menmuir tells the stories of the people whose lives revolve around the sea in the Cornish community where he lives. In twelve interlinked chapters, Menmuir explores the lives of local fishermen steeped in the rich traditions of a fishing community, the beachcombers who wander the shores in search of the varied objects which wash ashore and the stories they tell, and all number of others who have made their lives on the beautiful Cornwall coast. He also writes movingly about his own connection to the sea, telling heartfelt personal anecdotes about what it has come to mean in his and his family's lives. This book is a meaningful and moving work into how we interact with the environment around us, and how it comes to shape the course of our lives. As unmissable as it is compelling, as profound as it is personal, this must-read book will delight anyone familiar with the intimate and powerful pull which the sea holds over us.

Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2022

Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2022
Author: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2022-06-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000785971

The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is published each year in association with the Dialogue and the issues analysed within its covers are central to discussions at the event. Among the topics explored are: US Indo-Pacific strategy, alliances and security partnerships; Chinese perspectives on regional security; Taiwan’s security and the possibility of conflict; the continuing challenges posed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes; the nuclear dynamics of Sino-American security relations; air and naval operations in the Asia-Pacific; Sino-American technology competition; Japan’s competition and cooperation with China; India’s role in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad); the evolving regional security engagement of European states and the European Union; China’s role as an upstream state in the Mekong sub-region; and the climate crisis and Asia-Pacific security. As this volume goes to press, the war in Ukraine overshadows the international security landscape and many chapters in this volume touch on the conflict’s ramifications for security in the Asia-Pacific. Authors include leading regional analysts and academics at the forefront of research and analysis: Aidan Foster-Carter, James Crabtree, Peter A. Dutton, Brian Eyler, Michael Green, Sheryn Lee, Jeffrey G. Lewis, Tanvi Madan, Jeffrey Mazo, Ben Schreer, Yun Sun, Nicholas Szechenyi, Brendan Taylor, Ashley Townshend and Paul Triolo.

Suburban Empire

Suburban Empire
Author: Lauren Hirshberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520963857

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War–era suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence.

Groundwater Resources and Salt Water Intrusion in a Changing Environment

Groundwater Resources and Salt Water Intrusion in a Changing Environment
Author: Maurizio Polemio
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3039211978

This Special Issue presents the work of 30 scientists from 11 countries. It confirms that the impacts of global change, resulting from both climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure, are huge on worldwide coastal areas (and critically so on some islands in the Pacific Ocean), with highly negative effects on coastal groundwater resources, which are widely affected by seawater intrusion. Some improved research methods are proposed in the contributions: using innovative hydrogeological, geophysical, and geochemical monitoring; assessing impacts of the changing environment on the coastal groundwater resources in terms of quantity and quality; and using modelling, especially to improve management approaches. The scientific research needed to face these challenges must continue to be deployed by different approaches based on the monitoring, modelling and management of groundwater resources. Novel and more efficient methods must be developed to keep up with the accelerating pace of global change.

Building a Resilient Tomorrow

Building a Resilient Tomorrow
Author: Alice C. Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020
Genre: Climate change mitigation
ISBN: 019090934X

Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, Building a Resilient Tomorrow presents replicable sustainability successes and clear-cut policy recommendations that can improve the climate resilience of communities in the US and beyond.

Paulo Freire and Multilingual Education

Paulo Freire and Multilingual Education
Author: Sandro R. Barros
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000550621

This collection celebrates the work of Paulo Freire by assembling transnational perspectives on Freirean-based educational models that reconsider and reimagine language and literacy instruction, especially for multilingual learners. Offering an international and comparative overview of Freire’s theories and critical pedagogies in relation to multilingualism, this volume presents innovative analyses and applications of theories and methods and features case studies in public schools, after-school and community literacy programs, and grassroots activism. Part I features chapters that expand on Freire’s concepts and ideas, including critical literacies, critical consciousness, and liberatory teaching principles. Part II features chapters that discuss empirical analyses from applied research studies that draw from these philosophical concepts, making important connections to key topics on supporting students, curriculum development, and teaching. Ideal for students and scholars in language education, bilingual/multilingual methods, and sociology of education, the volume informs teacher knowledge and practice. In offering alternative paradigms to our dominant, homogenized monolingual status quo, the chapters present a shared vision of what multilingual literacy can offer students and how it can transform educational spaces into sites of imagination, creativity, and hope.

The Need for a High-Accuracy, Open-Access Global Digital Elevation Model

The Need for a High-Accuracy, Open-Access Global Digital Elevation Model
Author: Guy Jean-Pierre Schumann
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2889663345

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.