Coastal Zones

Biography

Biography: Dr. Chilukoti Murali Krishna

Abstract

Forests and Trees can act as bioshields that protect people and other assets against tsunamis and other coastal hazards but whether they are effective and the degree of their effectiveness depend on many variables. These variables include characteristics of the hazards itself, the features of the site such as bathymetry, geomorphology and the characteristic of the bioshield such as type of forest/tree, width, height, density …. The palmyra palm is a very tall, single-stemmed evergreen palm tree that can eventually reach a height of 30 meters. The unbranched stem can be up to 1 metre wide at the base, narrowing to 40 - 50cm at around 4 meters and thereafter cylindrical; it is topped by a crown of up to 60 large, stiffly projecting fan-shaped-leaves. The best lessons learnt out of the horrible Tsunami, Millions of Citizens are suffered, It is evident that while the built up structures are pulled down or flooded away in the Tsunami of 2004, the trees and Green Wall developed across the coast stood as a protective fence against the force and the velocity of the Tsunami. Therefore, it is a lesson that across the vulnerable coasts, development of tree plantation is one such workable option. Green India, hence, made it a point that development of GREEN WALL covering the coast line with Palmyra tree plantation is the need of hour.