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China: a tale of two cities

Beijing is a large bustling city of great dichotomies: the ancient and modern, the opulence and frugality, the imagery and simplicity.  In contrast Yantai, as a smaller coastal city an hour’s flight south-east of Beijing, offers open space and arable lands...

Future Earth Coasts International Project Office

Future Earth Coasts is hosted by the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaREI) coordinated by the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork, Ireland with researcher groups located across 6 academic institutions across Ireland working with 45...

Oceans, Seas & Coasts in UN Sustainable Development Goals

The relevance of coasts to SDG Goal 14 Oceans, seas and coastal areas form an integrated and essential component of the Earth’s ecosystem and are critical to sustainable development. Coasts are the place where the connection between people and their prosperity with...