Adaptation, including sea defences, desalination plants, drought-resistant crops, will cost a lot of money.
适应气候变化,包括海防、海水淡化、抗旱作物,将花费大量资金。
经济学人(汇总)
Yet the system that created many of those sea defences, and encouraged people to keep living in flood-prone areas, is being abandoned.
尽管之前政府修建了许多海防工事并鼓励人们住在洪水风险区的,目前这一计划正面临着搁浅的命运。
英语百科
Coastal management
(重定向自Sea defences)
coastal management is a defence method to defend a certain piece of land, this can be done with hard and soft engineering - hard engineering consists of rock armour, groynes, sea walls, gabion, and offshore breakwater, these are only a few. soft engineering is more beach replacement, trees cliff regrading and managed retreat.