Week 13
Venezuelan coastal hazards The main focus for this weeks blog is the coastal hazard, erosion. Venezuela is a coastal country with its capital being located by the Caribbean Sea. A journal written in 1997 was about coastal hazards for Venezuela. In the abstract of the journal article it explains the situation for Venezuela and its coastline. The predicted damage was written to be about 350 million dollars from coastal erosion and a sea-water level rise of about one meter by 2100. The predicted amount of people being displaced from their homes also 56,000 to 62,000. The article also describes the inundation of the Orinoco Delta being the most costly part because of its low lying location. The land loss and inundation is most likely this costly because of the coastal oil infrastructure in Venezuela, oil being a big part of their economy. All of these predictions are assuming the regular erosion patterns since 1991. These damages are assuming a "No Protection" response but the ...