Climate change and coastal management on Europe's coast

Nicholls, Robert J.; Klein, Richard J.T.

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“…Nicholls and Klein (2005) identify five objectives of proactive adaptation for coastal zones, including increasing robustness of infrastructural designs and long-term investments; increasing flexibility of vulnerable managed systems; enhancing adaptability of vulnerable natural systems; reversing maladaptive trends; and improving societal awareness and preparedness.…”

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Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: A review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices

Nguyen

Bonetti

Rogers

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Ocean & Coastal Management

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2016). Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices. Ocean and Coastal Management, Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices AbstractIncreasing human pressures on coastlines and associated threats posed by sea-level rise have stimulated development of a range of different concepts and methodological approaches to assess coastal vulnerability. The first section of this paper summarizes the concepts associated with vulnerability, natural hazards and climate change. The most widely adopted analytical approaches to vulnerability assessment are described, including spatial scales, the need for hybrid approaches comprising both biophysical and social dimensions of vulnerability, and the gradual incorporation of resilience aspects into such methodologies. In particular, the development and application of vulnerability indices is examined, based on a review of more than 50 studies that applied such indices across a range of hazards. The analytical procedures, proposed typologies, and most commonly selected variables are discussed. This overview demonstrates the breadth of vulnerability studies. This leads inevitably to lack of standardization of concepts and assumptions, which results in limited comparability between outputs for coasts from different areas. However, the widespread demand for vulnerability assessment as a component of decision-making in integrated management of the coast justifies pursuing indicator-based vulnerability assessments. In some cases these will explicitly adopt a consistent methodology that enables comparison between sites, whereas alternatively, metrics may be developed that are designed around particular system components and the site-specific functions for which they are valued. AbstractIncreasing human pressures on coastlines and associated threats posed by sea-level rise have stimulated development of a range of different concepts and methodological approaches to assess coastal vulnerability. The first section of this paper summarizes the concepts associated with vulnerability, natural hazards and climate change. The most widely adopted analytical approaches to vulnerability assessment are described, including spatial scales, the need for hybrid approaches comprising both biophysical and social dimensions of vulnerability, and the gradual incorporation of resilience aspects into such methodologies. In particular, the development and application of vulnerability indices is examined, based on a review of more than 50 studies that applied such indices across a range of hazards. The analytical procedures, proposed typologies, and most commonly selected variables are discussed. This overview demonstrates the breadth of vulnerability studies. This leads inevitably to lack of standardization of concepts and assumptions, which results in limited comparability between outputs for coasts from different areas. H...

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Section: Approaches Used To Assess Coastal Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: A review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices

Nguyen

Bonetti

Rogers

et al. 2016

Ocean & Coastal Management

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“…Planned adaptation (by the socioeconomic system) can serve to reduce vulnerability by a range of (antici- In general, sea level rise will exacerbate existing pressures and problems; thus, there are important synergies in considering adaptation to climate change in the context of existing problems (Nicholls and Klein, 2005). In some cases, the focus of sea level rise and climate change may help identify "win-win" situations where adaptation measures for sea level rise are worthy of implementation just based on solving today's problems (Turner et al, 1995;Dawson et al, 2009;Hallegatte, 2009 in a cost-benefit sense, protection costs could also overwhelm the capacity of local economies, especially when they are small such as islands (Fankhauser and Tol, 2005;Nicholls and Tol, 2006 activity, these funding challenges should be an issue of international concern.…”

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Planning for the Impacts of Sea Level Rise

Nicholls¹

2011

Oceanog.

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“…LUCIA is based on multi-criteria evaluation and constrained cellular automata as defined by White et al [20]. The drivers define the number of cells to be changed during consecutive time steps, and the potential for each cell to change from one land-use type to another at the next time step is given by the following multi-criteria evaluation: (1) where P = transition potential, C = constraints, F = factors, w = individual factor weights, and L = land-use type. The factors and constraints in LUCIA have dimensionless values between 0.0 and 1.0.…”

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“…Many coastal areas exhibit higher population growth and urbanization rates than national averages. About one third of the EU population lives within 50 km from the coast, and in Denmark, this number is 100% [1]. In the UK and the Netherlands, this proportion is about 75%.…”

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An Operational Web-Based Indicator System for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Hansen

Fuglsang

2014

IJGI

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Coastal zones are under severe pressure from anthropogenic activities, as well as on-going climate change with associated sea level rise and increased storminess. These challenges call for integrated and forward looking solutions. The concept on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, as defined during the last twenty years, provides the overall policy frames, but tools to support the planning and management efforts are almost lacking. Furthermore, the forward-looking dimension to embrace the effects of climate change is nearly absent in most implementations. The BLAST project, financed by the European Union Regional Fund through the INTERREG IV North Sea Region Programme, aimed at developing a web-based decision support system to assist Integrated Coastal Zone Management from a climate change perspective, and the current paper describes the methods used and the computing platform for implementing a decision support system. The software applied in developing the system is mainly Open Source components, thus, facilitating a more widespread use of the system.

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Climate change and coastal management on Europe's coast

Cited by 68 publications

References 32 publications

Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: A review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices

Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: A review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices

Planning for the Impacts of Sea Level Rise

An Operational Web-Based Indicator System for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

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