Coastal Vulnerability
Analysis of coastal vulnerability of Rangsang Island due to climate changes
... the coastal area of Rangsang Island which is vulnerable to climate ...mapping coastal vulnerability index (CVI) of the island, it is expected to be a reference of local government in planning their ...
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Physical Forcing Induced Coastal Vulnerability along the Gulf of Guinea
... (geomorphology, coastal slope, and coastline change rate) showed that vulnerability of the Ivorian coastal section increases eastward and, depends strongly on geomorphology and swell wave energy ...
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Development of an Integrated Coastal Vulnerability Index for the Ivorian Coast in West Africa
... Ivorian coastal area using the physical (geomorphology, coastal slope, coastal retreat rate, relative sea level rise and wave/Tide energy) and socio-economic (coastal population density, ...
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Coastal Vulnerability Assessment towards Sustainable Management of Peninsular Malaysia Coastline
... a coastal vulnerability index (CVI) for the Peninsular Malaysia ...increasing vulnerability; value 1 represents the lowest risk ranking assigned to the coastline whereas value 5 ranks the coastline ...
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Evaluation of coastal vulnerability to flooding: comparison of two different methodologies adopted by the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy)
... Abstract. This paper aims at presenting and comparing two methodologies adopted by the Emilia-Romagna region, northern Italy, to evaluate coastal vulnerability and to pro- duce hazard and risk maps for ...
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Coastal vulnerability assessment of Puducherry coast, India, using the analytical hierarchical process
... States. Coastal slope, geomorphology, relative sea level rise rate, shoreline change rate, mean tidal range and mean wave height were the main parameters used by Thieler and Hammer-Klose (1999) for assessment of ...
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Integration of bathymetric and topographic data for partial assessment of coastal vulnerability index in Malaysia
... a coastal mapping of selected area is produced and can be a subset for coastal vulnerability index ...and coastal slope were extracted from the coastal mapping for coastal ...
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Identification of Coastal Vulnerability at The North Pagai Island of Mentawai Using Smartline Method
... on coastal, especially small ...of coastal vulnerability and its risks along coastal ...a coastal management method that represents the geomorphology of coastal, hinterland and ...
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Derivation of tidal constituents from satellite altimetry data for coastal vulnerability assessment in Malaysia
... important coastal parameter used to assess the vulnerability of a coastal area to the impacts of sea level rise is the Mean Tidal ...specific coastal vulnerability study. However, in ...
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Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change hazards at the regional scale: the case study of the North Adriatic Sea
... eroding coastal areas, thus having profound impacts on coastal communi- ties and ...on coastal vulnerability to the envisaged effects of global climate change, and assist coastal ...
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Building blocks: A quantitative approach for evaluating coastal vulnerability
... appraise coastal vulnerability at various levels (regional, sub-regional, national, and international), but not at the micro town levels, particularly in the ...Barton-on-Sea vulnerability. ...
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A Framework for Rural Coastal Community Resilience: Assessing Diverse Perceptions of Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change.
... on coastal resilience lowered perceived adaptive ...reduce coastal vulnerability may be ineffective due to the prevailing white culture in the scientific community who, through their own ...
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Study of the Vulnerability of Coastal Areas of the Algerian Basin with the GIS
... vulnerable coastal areas by determining the coastal vulnerability index (CVI) at Bay of Algiers, based on physical, geomorphological and hydrodynamic factors, coupled a study of groundwater ...
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An AHP-derived method for mapping the physical vulnerability of coastal areas at regional scales
... In these cases, integrating expert opinions in the approach used to map future coastal vulnerability is highly impor- tant (e.g. Hanson et al., 2010). Here, AHP makes it pos- sible to convert qualitative ...
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Assessing Change and Vulnerability of the Guyana Coastline with Multi-Temporal Landsat Imagery and Survey Data
... of coastal vulnerability as coastlines in retreat suffer from the loss of both natural and man- made ...regional coastal elevation (X2) defined as average elevation above mean sea level in an area is ...
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Coastal Physical Vulnerability of Surabaya and Its Surrounding Area to Sea Level Rise
... the coastal vulnerability study are geomorphology (landform), elevation or height (m), coastal line change rate (m/year), the mean tidal range (dm), sea level rise rate (mm/year), the mean wave ...
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A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts
... social vulnerability analysis being the synthesis by Boruff et ...social vulnerability index (SoVI) uses ‘‘initially 42 socio-economic variables, reduced to 11 statistically independent fac- tors’’ ...a ...
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A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts
... social vulnerability analysis being the synthesis by Boruff et ...social vulnerability index (SoVI) uses ‘‘initially 42 socio-economic variables, reduced to 11 statistically independent fac- tors’’ ...a ...
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Vulnerability of Coastal Fisher Households to Climate Change: A Case Study from Gujarat, India
... for vulnerability assessment of fisheries ecosystem which supports livelihood of over a half a billion people (Allison et ...the vulnerability of fishery-based livelihood (Perry et ...the ...
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Meteorological Indices Approach for Prediction of Thunderstorm Probability at Two Coastal Sites in Egypt
... two coastal cities in Egypt; Sham El Sheikh and El ...the coastal strip along the Red Sea, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint ...
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