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Shubhankar Sengupta, Dmitry V. Kovalevsky, Laurens M. Bouwer and Jürgen Scheffran
Coastal flood risk and sea-level rise require decisions on investment in coastal protection and, in some cases, the relocation of urban areas. Models that formalize the relations between flooding costs, protective investments, and relocation can improve ...
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Dmitry V. Kovalevsky and Jürgen Scheffran
Coastal zones are experiencing rapid urbanization at unprecedented rates. At the same time, coastal cities are the most prone to climate-related vulnerability, including impacts of sea-level rise and climate-related coastal hazards under the present and ...
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Katawut Waiyasusri and Srilert Chotpantarat
Spatial evolution can be traced by land-use change (LUC), which is a frontier issue in the field of geography. Using the limited areas of Koh Chang in Thailand as the research case, this study analyzed the simulation of its spatial evolution from a multi...
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Milad Bagheri, Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Shattri Mansor, Latifah Abd Manaf, Mohd Fadzil Akhir, Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat and Amin Beiranvand Pour
Since at least half of the world?s population resides and works within coastal land, the coastal zone processes and resource management is of great economic and social importance. One of the fundamental issues for coastal city planners, researchers, mana...
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Milad Bagheri, Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Shattri Mansor, Latifah Abd Manaf, Mohd Fadzil Akhir, Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat and Amin Beiranvand Pour
Climate change is regarded as a serious threat to both environment and humanity, and as a result, it has piqued worldwide attention in the twenty-first century. Natural hazards are expected to have major effects in the coastal cities of the globe. At the...
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Hieu Ngo, Assela Pathirana, Chris Zevenbergen and Roshanka Ranasinghe
Probabilistic flood forecasting requires flood models that are simple and fast. Many of the modelling applications in the literature tend to be complex and slow, making them unsuitable for probabilistic applications which require thousands of individual ...
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Hieu Ngo, Assela Pathirana, Chris Zevenbergen and Roshanka Ranasinghe
Probabilistic flood forecasting requires flood models that are simple and fast. Many of the modelling applications in the literature tend to be complex and slow, making them unsuitable for probabilistic applications which require thousands of individual ...
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Brian A. Colle, Malcolm J. Bowman, Keith J. Roberts, M. Hamish Bowman, Charles N. Flagg, Jian Kuang, Yonghui Weng, Erin B. Munsell and Fuqing Zhang
This paper describes storm surge simulations made for Sandy (2012) for the Metropolitan New York (NYC) area using the Advanced Circulation (ADCIRC) model forced by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The atmospheric forecast uncertainty was...
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Joel Efiong, John O. Ushie
Pág. Page:535 - 548Abstrac
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Lindung Zalbuin Mase
Pág. 57 - 69
This paper presents one dimensional non-linear site response analysis of liquefaction potential caused by the 2000 and the 2007 earthquakes in coastal area of Bengkulu City, Bengkulu, Indonesia. Site investigations, including Standard Penetration Test (S...
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Clare Paton-Walsh, Élise-Andrée Guérette, Kathryn Emmerson, Martin Cope, Dagmar Kubistin, Ruhi Humphries, Stephen Wilson, Rebecca Buchholz, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. T. Griffith, Doreena Dominick, Ian Galbally, Melita Keywood, Sarah Lawson, James Harnwell, Jason Ward, Alan Griffiths and Scott Chambers
We present findings from the Measurements of Urban, Marine and Biogenic Air (MUMBA) campaign, which took place in the coastal city of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. We focus on a few key air quality indicators, along with a comparison to regio...
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Abel Castañeda,Francisco Corvo,Juan J. Howland,Rigoberto Marrero
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Building structures constitute obstacles for the entrance and distribution of marine aerosol in the atmosphere of Havana City (tropical coastal climate). Due to the shielding effect caused by building structures, a considerable decrease in chloride depos...
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Kritsana Kityuttachai, Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Taravudh Tipdecho and Rajendra Shrestha
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Bahaa Mohamadi, Shuisen Chen and Jia Liu
Evacuation plans are critical in case of natural disaster to save people?s lives. The priority of population evacuation on coastal areas could be useful to reduce the death toll in case of tsunami hazard. In this study, the population density remote sens...
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Evelia Rivera Arriaga,Beatriz Edith Vega Serratos,Gregorio Posada Vanegas,Enrique Alejandro Mangas Che
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An integrated coastal zone management approach was used towards building adaptation strategies for the city of San Francisco de Campeche, Mexico. Large interannual variability in precipitation extremes have led to city-wide flooding in numerous occasions...
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S Jeffress Williams and Nabil Ismail
Planning and design of coastal protection for high-risk events with low to moderate or uncertain probabilities are a challenging balance of short- and long-term cost vs. protection of lives and infrastructure. The pervasive, complex, and accelerating imp...
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AZ Dhunny, MR Lollchund, SDDV Rughooputh
A study was carried out to analyse the potential of wind energy in the generation of electricity for a smart city which is located in the South-East Coastal Zone of Mauritius. A flat land area of 10 square km situated about 3.5 km from the smart city was...
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Zhen Peng, Yihua Chen, Wu Deng, Isaac Yu Fat Lun, Naibin Jiang, Gang Lv and Tongyu Zhou
In recent years, residents in high-rise residential complexes (HRCs) in China have been placing an increasing demand on the living quality in HRCs. Particularly, the outdoor wind conditions are garnering more attention; however, few studies on the wind c...
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Camila Tavares Pereira,Vandoir Bourscheidt,Érico Masiero
This work examines the characteristics of the seasonal canopy layer heat island (UHIUCL) in a medium-sized coastal city in the state of São Paulo using the Local Climate Zones approach. The present analysis is based on datalogger campaign conducted from ...
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Julio Amézquita-López, Jorge Valdés-Atencio and David Angulo-García
The study of patterns of urban mobility is of utter importance for city growth projection and development planning. In this paper, we analyze the topological aspects of the street network of the coastal city of Cartagena de Indias employing graph theory ...
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