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Hazard assessment identifies land suitability and land use maps that are clearly exhibit models of traditional dams and buffer strips on coastal zone and highways as well as around the Bedouin communities which are worked on tourism and fishing. Un wise planning activities destroy the natural environmental resources in Nabq area by construction of new resorts on mangrove forests, coral colonies and raised beaches. The seismic activity hazard in the study area is usually active on lineaments extending parallel to the trend of the Gulf of Aqaba-Dead Sea transform fault where the Nabq protectorate occupies its southern segment. The mobilization of coastal sand dunes, wave ac tion and tidal currents are natural impacts on Nabq ecosystems, where moved dunes leave clay soils that are removed in some places by tropical storms increasing sea water turbidity that threaten the corals and other living organisms in the tidal flat region. Rough topography and mass wasting with high prob ability of flash flooding threaten different constructions in this area. GIS data analyses indicate that the area is under threat from some of geo-hazards. Assessment includes the analysis of satellite images, topographical, geological and other ancillary geological data using GIS technology. The aim of the present study is to assess the present geo-environmental hazards in the Nabq protectorate. Ongoing growth of tourism industries at Sharm El Sheikh northward into the Nabq protectorate causes severe hazards on its natural resources. It is characterized by diversity of bio-lives such as man grove forests, coral colonies, wild life plants and migratory birds.

Nabq protectorate is one of wonderful natural places in Egypt.

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