Odisha

• What type of coastline is it naturally?

  A depositional coastline
• What is the topography like for settlement?

  relatively flat land perfect for settlement
• There economic opportunities in odisha as well, name three of them


  Offshore oil and natural gas, cultural and archeological sites also dot the coast drawing in international visitors, and 35% of the coastal stretch is laden with minerals and metal deposits
• In 2011 the shoreline change assessment identified what? 


  Attempting halt processes with sea walls and other hard structures only shifts the problem subjecting downdraft coastal areas to similar loses
• What percentage of the shoreline is depositing And what percentage is eroding?

  46.8% deposoting And 36.8% eroding
• Due to lack of what erosional levels are how much higher than other parts of the coastline?

  mangrove vegetation, 50%
• In 1999 the strongest cyclone ever recorded in India killed how many people?

  10,000
• What type of plan was decided to implement in 2011?

  An ICZM
• What were the 3 aim of the ICZM?

  To establish sustainable levels of economic and social activity, resolve environmental social and economic conflicts, protect the coastal environment
• What are some of the key issues that have been identified bu the upcoming ICZM?

  Coastal erosion and associated oceanographic processes, livelihood security and conservation of cultural/ Archeological assets
• public consultations have been held with individual villages what were some of the actions they wanted to see?

  The construction of cyclone shelters, planting or replanting mangroves, the development of ecotourism
• How much mangrove growth helped to protect against effectively against the 1999 cyclone?

  4km or more