Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk

• Autore: Roshanka Ranasinghe (Ed.)
• Pubblicazione: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (298 p.)
• Soggetto non controllato: Coastal flooding; Climate change; Coast; Beach; Coastal erosion; Estuary; Coastal Risk
• Persona (resp. second.): Ruben Jongejan (Ed.)
• Sommario/riassunto: The combination of coastal climate change impacts and their effects on the ever-increasing human utilization of the coastal zone will invariably result in increasing coastal risk in the coming decades. However, while economic damage (potential consequence) caused by climate change-driven coastal inundation and erosion (potential hazard) is likely to increase, foregoing land-use opportunities in coastal regions and protecting or nourishing coasts is also costly. Managing the risk of coastline recession is therefore a balancing act. To avoid unacceptable future risks, it is imperative that risk-informed and sustainable coastal planning/management strategies are implemented sooner rather than later. This requires the development of methods for comprehensive coastal risk assessments which combine state-of-the-art consequence (or damage) modeling and coastal hazard modeling. This Special Issue contains 13 papers aimed at addressing this challenge.
• Titolo autorizzato: Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk
• ISBN: 3-03897-482-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910346851503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II