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Pages in category "Environment of Jamaica" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Along Jamaica's 894 km (556 mi) of coastline are 763 km 2 (295 sq mi) of coral reefs as of 2014. [7] However, the reefs were once much larger. About 85% of Jamaica's coral reefs were lost between 1980–2000. [8] Coral reef distribution on the northern coast of Jamaica extends from Morant Point in the east to Negril in the west.
As a result, climate change is expected to lead to changes in the economy, environment and population of the Caribbean. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Temperature rise of 2°C above preindustrial levels can increase the likelihood of extreme hurricane rainfall by four to five times in the Bahamas and three times in Cuba and the Dominican Republic . [ 5 ]
Water supply and sanitation in Jamaica is characterized by high levels of access to an improved water source, while access to adequate sanitation stands at only 80%.This situation affects especially the poor, including the urban poor many of which live in the country's over 595 unplanned squatter settlements in unhealthy and unsanitary environments with a high risk of waterborne disease.
Here the environment is used to generate economic rents, which are the costs to tourist for the use of resources. For example, the premium people pay for rooms with ocean view. [11] This reliance on the environment also works as an incentive for the tourism sector to develop a self-regulating system.
The Authority held its inaugural meeting in its host country, Jamaica, on 16 November 1994, [14] the day the Convention came into force. The articles governing the Authority have been made "noting the political and economic changes, including market-oriented approaches, affecting the implementation" of the convention. [15]
The Cockpit Country is Jamaica's largest remaining contiguous rainforest. Cockpit Country Forest Reserve was designated in 1950, and covers an area of 221.75 km 2 . [ 9 ] In 1979 an unpublished paper proposed preserving the area as a National Park. [ 10 ]
Jamaica is the third-largest island in the Caribbean, lying south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola. The Jamaican moist forests ecoregion covers an area of 8,192 km 2, and covers 85% of the island of Jamaica. It includes the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains in eastern Jamaica, and Cockpit Country further to the west. [1]