“…The first and second versions of the model were applied in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece (Papathoma and Dominey-Howes, 2003), and Seaside, Oregon, USA (Dominey-Howes et al, 2010), respectively. After improvements to the model, its third version was tested on the coast of New South Wales, Australia (Dall'Osso et al, 2009b), and has been widely used to assess the vulnerability of several coastal localities, such as the Aeolian Islands (Italy; Dall'Osso et al, 2010), Figueira da Foz (Portugal; Barros et al, 2013), Setúbal (Portugal; Santos et al, 2014), south of the Boso Peninsula (Japan; Voulgaris and Murayama, 2014), the southwest Atlantic coast of Spain (Abad et al, 2014), Naples (Italy; Alberico et al, 2015) and Chabahar Bay (Iran; Madani et al, 2016). Recently, a fourth version of the model has been tested at Botany Bay, Sydney (Australia; Dall'Osso et al, 2016).…”