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From the Ted Talk by Dave Sivaprasad: Mangroves, storm walls and other ways to protect coasts from climate change

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Now, this is not a problem only in Southeast Asia. A city in West Africa, for example, had similar challenges but compounded with very dnese populations along the csaot, severe land subsidence and drainage challenges that were eexrabteacd by poor soild waste management in some parts of the city. Now by integrating climate science data analytics to lcoal context and tightly linking this to socioeconomic impact, the government was able to manage the trade-offs on how you would balance the deployment of resources to things such as: Do I build more drainage infrastructure? Do I relocate some populations to other parts? Do I bluid srotm brearirs? What's the right mix?

Open Cloze


Now, this is not a problem only in Southeast Asia. A city in West Africa, for example, had similar challenges but compounded with very _____ populations along the _____, severe land subsidence and drainage challenges that were ___________ by poor _____ waste management in some parts of the city. Now by integrating climate science data analytics to _____ context and tightly linking this to socioeconomic impact, the government was able to manage the trade-offs on how you would balance the deployment of resources to things such as: Do I build more drainage infrastructure? Do I relocate some populations to other parts? Do I _____ _____ ________? What's the right mix?

Solution


  1. build
  2. storm
  3. solid
  4. coast
  5. exacerbated
  6. dense
  7. barriers
  8. local

Original Text


Now, this is not a problem only in Southeast Asia. A city in West Africa, for example, had similar challenges but compounded with very dense populations along the coast, severe land subsidence and drainage challenges that were exacerbated by poor solid waste management in some parts of the city. Now by integrating climate science data analytics to local context and tightly linking this to socioeconomic impact, the government was able to manage the trade-offs on how you would balance the deployment of resources to things such as: Do I build more drainage infrastructure? Do I relocate some populations to other parts? Do I build storm barriers? What's the right mix?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
storm barriers 4
coastal communities 3
sea level 2
southeast asia 2
climate change 2
local context 2
sea levels 2
land subsidence 2
critical infrastructure 2
natural ecosystems 2
climate science 2
build storm 2
livelihoods protected 2
private sector 2


Important Words


  1. africa
  2. analytics
  3. asia
  4. balance
  5. barriers
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  7. challenges
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  9. climate
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  11. compounded
  12. context
  13. data
  14. dense
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  16. drainage
  17. exacerbated
  18. government
  19. impact
  20. infrastructure
  21. integrating
  22. land
  23. linking
  24. local
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  26. management
  27. mix
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  29. poor
  30. populations
  31. problem
  32. relocate
  33. resources
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  36. similar
  37. socioeconomic
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  40. storm
  41. subsidence
  42. tightly
  43. waste
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