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Carlos Coelho, Pedro Narra, Bárbara Marinho and Márcia Lima
There are no sequential and integrated approaches that include the steps needed to perform an adequate management and planning of the coastal zones to mitigate coastal erosion problems and climate change effects. Important numerical model packs are avail...
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Tori Tomiczek, Elizabeth J. Sciaudone, Liliana Velásquez-Montoya, Elizabeth Smyre, Anna Wargula, Kelly Fawcett and Joshua Torres
Coastal highways along narrow barrier islands are vulnerable to flooding due to ocean and bay-side events, which create hazardous travel conditions and may restrict access to surrounding communities. This study investigates the vulnerability of a segment...
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Catalina Quiñones-Bustos, Maria Teresa Bull and Claudio Oyarzo-Vera
This article proposes a vulnerability assessment model for evaluating buildings? expected seismic performance, as well as their vulnerability to tsunamis. The objective of this assessment is to provide appropriate information for decision makers regardin...
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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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Shyang-Woei Lin, Chia-Feng Yen, Chih-Hsin Chang, Li-Jin Wang and Hung-Ju Shih
In East Taiwan, coastal settlements are scattered and narrowly confined between the Coastal Mountain and the Pacific Ocean. These settlements are currently at risk as there is no room for retreat. Therefore, it is essential to conduct a comprehensive and...
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Joshua Amuzu, Bubu P. Jallow, Amos T. Kabo-Bah and Sidat Yaffa
Global Climate Change is one of the dire challenges facing the international community today. Coastal zones are vulnerable to its impacts. An effective approach with long-term prospects in addressing climate change impacts is it?s mainstreaming into deve...
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Noorashikin Md Noor and Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud
Coastal zones are an essential part of maintaining sustainability in the world. Coastal regions have gained importance due to various factors, including high ecological production, dense population, industry compatibility, waste disposal, leisure, transp...
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Luís Russo Vieira, José Guilherme Vieira, Isabel Marques da Silva, Edison Barbieri and Fernando Morgado
Coastal erosion is considered a major worldwide challenge. The vulnerability assessment of coastal areas, in relation to climate change, is a key topic of worldwide increasing interest. The integration of methodologies supported by Remote Sensing, Geogra...
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Francesca De Serio, Elvira Armenio, Michele Mossa and Antonio Felice Petrillo
Awareness of coastal landscapes vulnerability to both natural and man-made hazards induce to monitor their evolution, adaptation, resilience and to develop appropriate defence strategies. The necessity to transform the monitoring results into useful info...
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Marcello Di Risio, Antonello Bruschi, Iolanda Lisi, Valeria Pesarino and Davide Pasquali
The evaluation of the coastal hazard and vulnerability caused by storm conditions is an important issue related to coastal flooding and erosion. Although these topics have been widely tackled by past research, they cannot be avoided, but need to be caref...
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Marcello Di Risio, Antonello Bruschi, Iolanda Lisi, Valeria Pesarino and Davide Pasquali
The evaluation of the coastal hazard and vulnerability caused by storm conditions is an important issue related to coastal flooding and erosion. Although these topics have been widely tackled by past research, they cannot be avoided, but need to be caref...
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Marcello Di Risio, Antonello Bruschi, Iolanda Lisi, Valeria Pesarino and Davide Pasquali
The evaluation of the coastal hazard and vulnerability caused by storm conditions is an important issue related to coastal flooding and erosion. Although these topics have been widely tackled by past research, they cannot be avoided, but need to be caref...
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José Leandro Barros, Alexandre Oliveira Tavares, Angela Santos and André Fonte
Portugal?s coastline extends 1187 km. It is characterized by social, economic and physical conditions that differentiate it from the rest of the territory, including population density, location of infrastructure and support of tourism activities. Theref...
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José Leandro Barros, Alexandre Oliveira Tavares, Angela Santos and André Fonte
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Oswaldo Coca-Domínguez and Constanza Ricaurte-Villota
A hazard and vulnerability assessment of coastal erosion is an essential first step for planning and decision-making, because it is part of risk management and its results are in the form of easily interpreted traffic-light maps. For the analysis of the ...
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Antonio Minervino Amodio, Gianluigi Di Paola and Carmen Maria Rosskopf
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represents a rather innovative, quick, and low-cost methodological approach offering applications in several fields of investigation. The present study illustrates the developed method using Digital Elevation Mo...
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Due to their complexity, hazard interactions are often neglected in current studies of multi-hazard risk assessment. As a result, the assessment results are qualitative or semi-quantitative and are difficult to use in regional risk management. In this pa...
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Apostolia Komi, Alexandros Petropoulos, Niki Evelpidou, Serafeim Poulos and Vasilios Kapsimalis
The coastal zone may be considered as the location where the marine and land environments interact dynamically and coexist with human societies. Globally, natural and human systems are being severely threatened by the sea level rise related to climate ch...
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Igor Ru?ic, Sanja Dugonjic Jovancevic, Cedomir Benac and Nino Krvavica
This study presents a vulnerability assessment methodology that was developed to analyze the Croatian Eastern Adriatic Coast (CEAC), which has extremely complex geomorphology. Local coastal retreat, slope instability phenomena, and the influence of marin...
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Komali Kantamaneni, N.N.V. Sudha Rani, Louis Rice, Koyel Sur, Menaha Thayaparan, Udayangani Kulatunga, Rajshree Rege, Komali Yenneti and Luiza C. Campos
The establishment and alteration of any coastal feature is largely dependent upon complex hydrological and geomorphologic processes. Therefore, understanding hazard factors and threat risk level is crucial for mitigating risk in coastal zones. This study...
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