Assessment of coastal risks to climate change related impacts at the regional scale: The case of the Mediterranean region

Satta, Alessio; Puddu, Manuela; Venturini, Sara; Giupponi, Carlo

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.06.018

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“…It is also a key component of risk assessment and management, providing guidance for the implementation of appropriate risk reduction strategies and supporting the optimal allocation of available adaptation resources [40]. Most previous risk assessments have been conducted using specific models on a limited target or region [15,58,59]. These types of risk assessments (see Tables 3 and 4) are useful for understanding specific events or extracting accurate estimates, but they are difficult to use as a standard when comparing national or regional policies.…”

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Kang

Park

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The risks caused by climate change are worsening worldwide, and it is recognized that national and regional responses to climate change are essential. This study therefore explores climate change risks that have been recognized as fatal to people and the environment by analyzing multi-influence factors that appear in multiple risk indicators. The climate change risks in this study are based on 73 existing risk indicators; the frame data for multi-influence risk factors are based on 3098 newspaper articles published over 24 years on the impact of climate change in South Korea. The main outcomes for this study were finding climate change risk trend from newspaper articles regarding climate change impacts through text-mining, and figuring out the multi-risk indicators that are likely to occur at the same time with other risk indicators using network analysis. From the network analysis, we found that the major risk indicators have a high degree of interrelationship among risk indicators, including "increase in mortality rate from disaster", "increase in flood areas due to coastal flooding", and "destruction of repair facilities due to flooding (river bank, etc.)". The main risk indicators derived from this study can therefore be used as a reasonable standard when identifying the main risks posed by climate change and defining future adaptation planning priorities.

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Section: Risk Assessmentmentioning

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Kang

Park

2018

Sustainability

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“…Similarly, El‐Hattab (2015), for the specific case of the Nile Delta northern Mediterranean coast, proposed a CVI considering 10 elements of pressure, including population density and socioeconomic status. Satta et al (2017) applied a coastal risk index to evaluate coastal hot spots for 21 Mediterranean countries (finding Egypt as one of the most vulnerable), whereas Satta et al (2016) focused attention on physical and socioeconomic characteristics of the urbanized coast of Tetouan in Morocco. Recently, Serafim et al (2019) explicitly considered in the analysis relevant proxies of adaptive capacity such as number of residents, income per capita, and distance to urbanized areas.…”

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Egypt's Coastal Vulnerability to Sea‐Level Rise and Storm Surge: Present and Future Conditions

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Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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We assess the relative vulnerability of the Mediterranean shoreline of Egypt (about 1000 km in length) to climate change (i.e., sea‐level rise [SLR], storm surge flooding, and coastal erosion) by using a Climate‐improved Coastal Vulnerability Index (CCVI). We integrate information relative to a multidimensional set of physical, geological, and socioeconomic variables, and add to the mainstream literature the consideration of both a reference and a climate change scenario, assuming the representative concentration pathway 8.5 W/m2 (RCP8.5) for the 21st century in the Mediterranean region. Results report that approximately 1% (~43 km²) of the mapped shoreline is classifiable as having a high or very high vulnerability, whereas approximately 80% (4652 km²) shows very low vulnerability. As expected, exposure to inundation and erosion is especially relevant in highly developed and urbanized coastal areas. Along the shoreline, while the Nile Delta region is the most prone area to coastal erosion and permanent or occasional inundations (both in the reference and in the climate scenario), results show the Western Desert area to be less vulnerable due to its geological characteristics (i.e., rocky and cliffed coasts, steeper coastal slope). The application of the CCVI to the coast of Egypt can be considered as a first screening of the hot‐spot risk areas at the national scale. The results of the analysis, including vulnerability maps and indicators, can be used to support the development of climate adaptation and integrated coastal zone management strategies. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2020;16:761–772. © 2020 SETAC

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“…Therefore, in recent years there has been a widespread and growing interest in the coastal risk assessment methodologies [22]- [26], necessary to properly manage the risk areas by allocating the funds intended for coastal protection with a certain order of priority [27], [28].…”

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Remote Sensing and Gis to Support Coastal Erosion Risk Analysis in Calabria, Italy

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In territories such as Calabria, Italy, characterized by about 750 km of coasts, the analysis of the coastal erosion risk is of increasing interest due to the considerable anthropic pressure observed in the last few decades. Index-based methods can be used to assess the risk of coastal erosion. The paper shows an analysis of the coastal erosion risk carried out in Calabria. The analysis was carried out in over 50 sample coastal areas, three of them were chosen as case studies for a detailed analysis. The analysis of the shoreline changes was carried out through the comparison of various cartography data, which consists of historical shorelines taken from the Open Data section of the Calabrian Geoportal, orthophotos taken from the Open Data section of the Italian Geoportal, and satellite imagery provided by Google Earth. The analysis was divided into four phases as follows. The first phase concerned the manual digitization of each missing shoreline, using QGIS for each orthophotos and using the spatial analysis tools of Google Earth Pro for each satellite imagery. The second phase concerned the evaluation of the beach width for each transept. Finally, the last phase concerned the determination of shoreline rates of change using end point rate (EPR) and net shoreline movement (NSM) statistics. Also, an index representative of the trend of erosion or advance of the coast was estimated. Finally, the methodology described in this paper is of particular relevance and interest in the planning and management of coastal areas. It allows us to quickly analyze cartographic data from different sources, using free software. Also, it is of general validity and is useful as a basis for the index-based coastal risk assessment methodology.

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Assessment of coastal risks to climate change related impacts at the regional scale: The case of the Mediterranean region

Cited by 78 publications

References 29 publications

A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Egypt's Coastal Vulnerability to Sea‐Level Rise and Storm Surge: Present and Future Conditions

Remote Sensing and Gis to Support Coastal Erosion Risk Analysis in Calabria, Italy

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