An index-based method to assess risks of climate-related hazards in coastal zones: The case of Tetouan

Satta, Alessio; Snoussi, Maria; Puddu, Manuela; Flayou, Latifa; Hout, Radouane

doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2016.03.021

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“…The risk and vulnerability-oriented studies (Niazi, 2007;Snoussi et al, 2010;Nejjari, 2014;Satta et al, 2016) in the coastal area were used for validation. The results are consistent,…”

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confidence: 99%

“…on 26 December 2000, Martil Floods have invaded more than 2400 ha in the Martil plain) ( Fig.1). Urbanization is concentrated in coastal zones and puts pressure on coastal ecosystems with high touristic value (Snoussi et al,2010).It is pitiable that municipalities are also vulnerable to multiple climate andnon-climate hazards such as, erosion and morphological changes (Satta et al, 2016).…”

Section: Martil M'diq and Fnideq Municipalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spatialised flood resilience measurement in rapidly urbanized coastal areas with complex semi-arid environment in Northern Morocco

Satour¹,

Raji²,

Moçayd³

et al. 2020

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Abstract. Enhancing resilience is critical for coastal urban systems to cope with and minimize flood disaster risks. Global increases in the frequency of floods is a major concern for many areas in Africa. In this regard, urban planners need increasingly accurate approaches to set up a standard for measuring the resilience to floods. In Morocco, this issue is still not fully covered by the scientific community, despite the obvious need for a new approach adapted to local conditions. Using three northern coastal municipalities, this study applied a composite index and geographic information system approach to measure and map resilience to floods. The approach is also based on a linear ranking of resilience parameters, offering a more optimal classification of spatial resilience variation. The findings allowed to identify specific areas with different resilience levels and revealed the relationship between urban dimensions and the flood resilience degree. This approach provides an efficient decision support tool to facilitate flood risk management especially in terms of prioritization of protective actions.

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“…The risk and vulnerability-oriented studies (Niazi, 2007;Snoussi et al, 2010;Nejjari, 2014;Satta et al, 2016) in the coastal area were used for validation. The results are consistent,…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Martil M'diq and Fnideq Municipalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatialised flood resilience measurement in rapidly urbanized coastal areas with complex semi-arid environment in Northern Morocco

Satour¹,

Raji²,

Moçayd³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…The integration of GIS and MCDM techniques in disease and health applications can assist related agencies to make a better decision for risk pollution and contamination (Torre et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2013), healthcare services (Diaby et al, 2013), hazard assessment (Alcorn et al, 2013;Satta et al, 2016) and epidemiology (Fuller et al, 2014). In general, these studies used common steps from original MCDM technique that applied by Malczewsski (2000) and Pfeiffer & Stevens (2015) for spatial epidemiology with appropriate local modifications (Fuller et al, 2014;Lahue et al, 2016), starting from an objective determination to map validation.…”

Section: Gis Based Mcdm Methods For Tuberculosis Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is a spatial multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method for producing a risk map based on the index values (Chang, 2011;Malczewski, 2000) and environmental risk factors of local TB. A GIS-based MCDM model is generally applied for suitability and vulnerability exploration with cautious consideration of suitable criteria or factors (Chang, 2011), particularly in managing better environmental health decision making system (Alcorn et al, 2013;Fuller et al, 2014;Satta et al, 2016).…”

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Identifying High-Risk Populations of Tuberculosis Using Environmental Factors and Gis Based Multi-Criteria Decision Making Method

Rasam

Shariff

Dony

2016

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Development of an innovative method to enhance the detection of tuberculosis (TB) in Malaysia is the latest agenda of the Ministry of Health. Therefore, a geographical information system (GIS) based index model is proposed as an alternative method for defining potential high-risk areas of local TB cases at Section U19, Shah Alam. It is adopted a spatial multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method for ranking environmental risk factors of the disease in a standardised five-score scale. Scale 1 and 5 illustrate the lowest and the highest risk of the TB spread respectively, while scale from 3 to 5 is included as a potential risk level. These standardised scale values are then combined with expert normalised weights (0 to 1) to calculate the overall index values and produce a TB ranked map using a GIS overlay analysis and weighted linear combination. It is discovered that 71.43% of the Section is potential as TB high risk areas particularly at urban and densely populated settings. This predictive result is also reliable with the current real cases in 2015 by 76.00% accuracy. A GIS based MCDM method has demonstrated analytical capabilities in targeting high-risk spots and TB surveillance monitoring system of the country, but the result could be strengthened by applying other uncertainty assessment method.

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“…A detailed analysis of available methods (indicators, index, GIS and model based methods) that can be concretely applied for assessing coastal vulnerability to climate change at the European and Regional Sea levels is provided by [48]. A multi-scale coastal risk index for local scale (CRI-LS) in the coast of Morocco was applied by [49]. These authors considered that the local scale approach provides a useful tool for local coastal planning and management by exploring the effects and the extensions of the hazards and combining hazard, vulnerability and exposure variables in order to identify areas where the risk is relatively high.…”

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Coastal Management Software to Support the Decision-Makers to Mitigate Coastal Erosion

Coelho

Narra

Marinho

et al. 2020

JMSE

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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 available for users, but often looking deeply to the physical processes, demanding big computational efforts and focusing on specific problems. Thus, it is important to provide adequate tools to the decision-makers, which can be easily interpreted by populations, promoting discussions of optimal intervention scenarios in medium to long-term horizons. COMASO (coastal management software) intends to fill this gap, presenting a group of tools that can be applied in standalone mode, or in a sequential order. The first tool should map the coastal erosion vulnerability and risk, also including the climate change effects, defining a hierarchy of priorities where coastal defense interventions should be performed, or limiting/constraining some land uses or activities. In the locations identified as priorities, a more detailed analysis should consider the application of shoreline and cross-shore evolution models (second tool), allowing discussing intervention scenarios, in medium to long-term horizons. After the defined scenarios, the design of the intervention should be discussed, both in case of being a hard coastal structure or an artificial nourishment (third type of tools). Finally, a cost-benefit assessment tool should optimize the decisions, forecasting costs and benefits for each different scenario, through definition of economic values to the interventions and to the land/services/ecosystems, weighting all the environmental, cultural, social and historical aspects. It is considered that COMASO tools can help giving answers to the major problems of the coastal planning and management entities, integrating transversal knowledge in risk assessment, physical processes, engineering and economic evaluations. The integrated coastal zone management needs these tools to ensure sustainable coastal zones, mitigating erosion and climate change effects.

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An index-based method to assess risks of climate-related hazards in coastal zones: The case of Tetouan

Cited by 65 publications

References 8 publications

Spatialised flood resilience measurement in rapidly urbanized coastal areas with complex semi-arid environment in Northern Morocco

Spatialised flood resilience measurement in rapidly urbanized coastal areas with complex semi-arid environment in Northern Morocco

Identifying High-Risk Populations of Tuberculosis Using Environmental Factors and Gis Based Multi-Criteria Decision Making Method

Coastal Management Software to Support the Decision-Makers to Mitigate Coastal Erosion

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