How To Repair Environment After Natural Disasters
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Environmental Recovery
The environment provides many services to humans and wildlife and our lives are intricately linked with our environment. So, when a major disturbance to the surroundings occurs, such as a tsunami or storm surge, the natural environment – the natural ecosystems - in the affected area tin exist severely impacted and the ecosystem services may be destroyed or disrupted. For seismic sea wave and especially hurricane protection, coastal ecosystems like mangroves, barrier islands, wetlands, and coral reefs can absorb and reduce moving ridge energy and h2o acme, thereby protecting the country from erosion, but at the same time, they can sustain heavy harm from the energy of the h2o. For these and many other reasons, environmental recovery and restoration are important elements of disaster recovery. Some of the examples of environmental restoration later tsunami and storm surge disasters include beach and sand dune restoration, wetland restoration, and water and soil protection, and recovery. Other environmental recovery activities include the restoration of urban forests, habitat recovery for wild fauna, and debris recycling.
Harm to a Line-fishing Port afterward the 2004 Indian Body of water Seismic sea wave.
An example of the importance of coastal ecosystem services and the impairment caused by hurricane tempest surge can be found in Louisiana at the time of Hurricane Katrina. The US Geological Survey estimated that a loss of more than 200 square miles of littoral wetlands was attributed to Katrina's storm surge in Louisiana, an area representing approximately viii times the annual country loss rate already taking place (remember a football field of country on the Mississippi delta disappears every 100 minutes so this is a lot of land!). The protection and economic benefits afforded littoral communities in Louisiana past these fragile and quickly declining ecosystems were already well documented and recognized past the country. Following Katrina's destruction, the land stepped upward its existing coastal restoration program, creating a new State Coastal Master Plan and a new state agency to oversee and monitor restoration activities. Equally a issue of devoting a new level of human being and monetary resources, today Louisiana is a world leader in the science and engineering of coastal restoration and protection.
Marsh grass was torn out and deposited on a boardwalk by Katrina'southward storm surge. Bayou Sauvage National Wild animals Refuge, New Orleans, LA.
Credit: Dinah Maygarden
Other forms of environmental damage that must be remediated after a disaster include spills and other kinds of pollution resulting from the destructive forces of tsunamis and storm surges. The article The Indian Ocean Tsunami and its Ecology Impacts outlines environmental impacts from the 2004 seismic sea wave.
Source: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1114
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