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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Format: | Brief |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/18024142/green-belts-coastal-risk-management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16156 |