"Land Subsidence" was included in the UNESCO programme of the International Hydrological Decade (IHD), 1965–1974 and an ad hoc working group on land subsidence...
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Sinking cities – Cities endangered by environmental change UNESCO Working Group on Land Subsidence "San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking". earthobservatory...
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liquefaction UNESCO Working Group on Land Subsidence Sea level rise Wikimedia Commons has media related to Subsidence. Look up subsidence in Wiktionary...
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targets Central Valley land subsidence – Land sinking when groundwater is withdrawn too quickly UNESCO Working Group on Land Subsidence Sea level rise List...
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International Hydrological Programme (category UNESCO)
Land Subsidence International Initiative, LASII (former UNESCO Working Group on Land Subsidence). Another initiative is the International Groundwater Resources...
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Joseph F. Poland (hydrologist) (category Land surveying systems)
hydrogeologic field of land subsidence. He committed 50 years of his life to understanding and bringing awareness to the issue. Land subsidence results from over...
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Groundwater (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
susceptible to saltwater intrusion in coastal areas and can cause land subsidence when extracted unsustainably, leading to sinking cities (like Bangkok)...
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Troy (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
site is open to the public as a tourist destination, and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998. Troy was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt during...
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New York City (redirect from Books on new york city)
manifestations of global warming like sea level rise exacerbated by land subsidence. Climate change has spawned the development of a significant climate...
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History of Tuvalu (redirect from Land ownership in Tuvalu)
Centre for UNESCO (ACCU). 9–25 March 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2013. "Submission to the 16th Session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group (Second...
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transportation. These changes may have been triggered by tectonic upheavals or subsidence, or the silting up of rivers due to agricultural practices. Within a few...
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uplift and subsidence, and shape the coastal geography. Surface processes comprise the action of water, wind, ice, fire, and living things on the surface...
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Southeast Asia (section Ethnic groups)
have the world's highest annual flood losses in the year 2050. Due to land subsidence, Jakarta is sinking so much (up to 28 cm (11 in) per year between 1982...
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Cape Verde (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
2,829 metres (9,281 feet) above sea level. The caldera resulted from subsidence, following the partial evacuation (eruption) of the magma chamber, along...
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Borobudur (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
under construction. Possibly fearing a subsidence that may cause the whole structure to slide outward, work on the partly sculpted foot was suspended...
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tremendous water challenges. These include groundwater overexploitation, land subsidence, the risk of major flooding, the impacts of increasing urbanization...
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Water (redirect from Effects of water on life)
quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and...
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Bridge over Saint Volodymyr Descent (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
the underground collector which causes a soil subsidence at Poshtova Square where reconstruction was on hold due to the dispute with archaeologists. In...
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Bangkok (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
p. 35. Phien-wej, N.; Giao, P.H.; Nutalaya, P (2 February 2006). "Land subsidence in Bangkok, Thailand". Engineering Geology. 82 (4): 187–201. Bibcode:2006EngGe...
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Mexico City (redirect from Ethnic groups in Mexico City)
pollution and water pollution problems, as well as groundwater-related subsidence. Air and water pollution has been contained and improved in several areas...
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influenced by a complex interaction between land position, rainfall hydrology, sea level, sedimentation, subsidence, storms and pest-predator relationships)...
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Netherlands (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
cultural statement". "Netherlands : Fugros Ground Investigation Links Dutch Subsidence to Former Peat Extraction". MENA Report. 20 September 2021. "Windmills...
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2023 Al Haouz earthquake (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
20 cm (7.9 in) surface uplift around the epicenter and 7 cm (2.8 in) of subsidence to the south. Surface deformation was observed around the epicenter across...
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Historic preservation (section UNESCO (international))
and natural hazards (e.g. ground movements, landslides, earthquakes and subsidence, flooding, fires and storms). Countermeasures include applying early warning...
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Geology of the Canary Islands (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
some other volcanic island chains, some of the later stages occur due to subsidence of the island as seafloor spreading moves the island away from the focus...
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compaction, water logging and subsidence. Human-induced land degradation tends to be particularly serious in dry regions. Focusing on soil properties, Oldeman...
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production continues on a much reduced scale. On 28 July 2021, the slate landscape of northwest Wales was awarded the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
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Alexandria (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Antirrhodus. There has been a land subsidence here, as throughout the northeast coast of Africa. The Great Theater, on the modern Hospital Hill near the...
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