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Autore: | Roshanka Ranasinghe (Ed.) |
Titolo: | Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk |
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 |
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