Holdings: Green Belts and Coastal Risk Management

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Green Belts and Coastal Risk Management

For more than four centuries Japan has been developing forested green belts to mitigate coastal hazards such as sandstorms, salty winds, high tides, and tsunamis. Although Japan's green belts were severely damaged by the March 11 tsunami, they...

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Main Authors:	Shaw, Rajib, Noguchi, Yusuke, Ishiwatari, Mikio
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	AFFORESTATION AGRICULTURAL LANDS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURE BAMBOO BEACH BIODIVERSITY COASTAL AREAS COASTAL FOREST COASTAL FORESTS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CULTIVATION DAMAGES DISASTER DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISKS DISASTERS EARTHQUAKE EVACUATION FARMERS FLOODED FLOODS FOREST FOREST AGENCY FOREST LAW FORESTRY FORESTRY AGENCY FORESTS GREEN BELT LAND USE LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL COMMUNITY LOCAL CONDITIONS MANGROVES MEDICINAL PLANTS MOUNDS NATURAL HAZARDS PINE PINE FORESTS PINES PLANT PLANTING PUBLIC AWARENESS RESERVED FORESTS RISK REDUCTION SAFETY SALT WATER SHIPS SPECIES STORMS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TREE TREE SPECIES TREES TSUNAMI TSUNAMIS URBANIZATION WILDLIFE WOOD WOODS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/18024142/green-belts-coastal-risk-management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16156

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/18024142/green-belts-coastal-risk-management
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16156