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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon
The relationship between the impacts of coastal perimeter transformations derived from human activity and coastal vulnerability is not easy to assess. The impacts associated with coastal dynamics are phenomena that usually develop very extensively over a...
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Victor Malagon Santos, Ivan D. Haigh and Thomas Wahl
Densely populated coastal regions are vulnerable to extreme wave events, which can cause loss of life and considerable damage to coastal infrastructure and ecological assets. Here, an event-based analysis approach, across multiple sites, has been used to...
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Victor Malagon Santos, Ivan D. Haigh and Thomas Wahl
Densely populated coastal regions are vulnerable to extreme wave events, which can cause loss of life and considerable damage to coastal infrastructure and ecological assets. Here, an event-based analysis approach, across multiple sites, has been used to...
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Victor Malagon Santos, Ivan D. Haigh and Thomas Wahl
Densely populated coastal regions are vulnerable to extreme wave events, which can cause loss of life and considerable damage to coastal infrastructure and ecological assets. Here, an event-based analysis approach, across multiple sites, has been used to...
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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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Xuexue Chen, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Sander Pasterkamp, Tomohiro Suzuki and Corrado Altomare
The vulnerability of buildings on coastal dikes due to overtopping wave impacts is difficult to assess. A method is developed in this paper to quantify the vulnerability of masonry buildings on a coastal dike exposed to wave overtopping. Using previous s...
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Xuexue Chen, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Sander Pasterkamp, Tomohiro Suzuki, Corrado Altomare
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The vulnerability of buildings on coastal dikes due to overtopping wave impacts is difficult to assess. A method is developed in this paper to quantify the vulnerability of masonry buildings on a coastal dike exposed to wave overtopping. Using previous s...
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Roberta Paranunzio, Marco Guerrini, Edward Dwyer, Paul J. Alexander and Barry O?Dwyer
With increasing urban expansion and population growth, coastal urban areas will be increasingly affected by climate change impacts such as extreme storm events, sea level rise and coastal flooding. To address coastal inundation risk for impact studies, i...
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Shaikh Abdullah Al Rifat, Jason C. Senkbeil and Weibo Liu
The Gulf and southeast coastal communities in the United States are particularly vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Coastal areas generally receive the greatest economic losses from tropical cyclones; however, research suggests that losses in the inland zo...
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Charles Lan, Alec Wild, Ryan Paulik, Liam Wotherspoon and Conrad Zorn
This study investigates the direct and indirect impacts of extreme sea level (ESL) flooding on critical infrastructure. While methods to quantify the direct impacts of ESL flooding on coastal areas are well established, the indirect impacts that extend b...
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A. MARTÍNEZ ARROYO,S. MANZANILLA NAIM,J. ZAVALA HIDALGO
The vulnerability of fisheries to climate change in México is explored on the basis of an overview of the possible impacts of physical variables of ecosystems and habitats which sustain these fisheries, taking in consideration the socioeconomic and ecolo...
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Vasiliki I. Chalastani, Andreas Pantelidis, Elissavet Feloni, Andreas Papadimitriou, Christina N. Tsaimou, Olympia Nisiforou and Vasiliki K. Tsoukala
Small fishing harbours substantially contribute to coastal economies as they support not only fishing but also tourism activities. They are located at the land?sea interface and are considered vulnerable infrastructure affected by the increased human act...
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Fábio André Matos, Filipe Alves, Carlos Coelho, Márcia Lima and André Vizinho
The Ovar coastline is characterized as one of the coastal areas with the highest vulnerability and risk of erosion in the Portuguese coast. The high-energy coast is further threatened by a permanent sediment deficit of anthropic origin, as well as sea le...
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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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Dao Duy Minh,Philippe Lebailly,Nguyen Dang Hao,Philippe Burny,Ho Thi Minh Hop
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Rural households in Vietnam have been facing various adverse impacts on their livelihoods. By using 28 indicators of Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF), this study aims to identify the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) of the households in the coa...
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Jorge E. Pesantez, Adam Behr and Elizabeth Sciaudone
This work considers a database of pre-storm morphological factors and documented impacts along a coastal roadway. Impacts from seven storms, including sand overwash and pavement damage, were documented via aerial photography. Pre-storm topography was exa...
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Laura Lemke and Jon K. Miller
Coastal erosion is controlled by two sets of factors, one related to storm intensity and the other related to a location?s vulnerability. This study investigated the role of each set in controlling dune erosion based on data compiled for eighteen histori...
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Wilmer Rey, Miranda Martínez-Amador, Paulo Salles, E. Tonatiuh Mendoza, Miguel A. Trejo-Rangel, Gemma L. Franklin, Pablo Ruiz-Salcines, Christian M. Appendini and Julián Quintero-Ibáñez
This study applies three different methods to assess the flood risk and damage from the strongest high-pressure cold front (locally known as ?Norte?) event in terms of the residual tide from 30 years (1979?2008) of data for Progreso, Yucatan. The most im...
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Jialong Peng, Shaoqiang Wang, Lin Mu and Si Wang
With the increasing global reliance on maritime oil transportation, oil spills pose significant environmental hazards to coastal ecosystems. This study presents a comprehensive quantitative framework for assessing oil spill risks along the Jiaozhou Bay c...
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Norzana Mohd Anuar, Hee-Min Teh and Zhe Ma
Amid mounting concerns about climate change?s impact on coastal areas, this study investigates storm surge dynamics induced by Tropical Depression 29W (TD 29W) using the MIKE 21 model. Comprehending the complex mechanisms behind storm surges is crucial c...
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