Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk - Softcover

 
9783038974819: Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3038974811 ISBN 13: 9783038974819
Publisher: Mdpi AG, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Mdpi AG
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3038974811
ISBN 13 
9783038974819
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
298
Editor
Ranasinghe Roshanka, Jongejan Ruben