Climate Change and Coastal Protection: Adaptation Strategies for the German Baltic Sea Coast

Fröhle, Peter; Schlamkow, Christian; Dreier, Norman; Sommermeier, Knut

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0400-8_7

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“…Beach erosion is due to wave action. However, other causes such as the decrease of fluvial sediment supply caused by the construction of dams (see for example Velegrakis et al 2008) and the sea-level rise caused by climate change (see for example Fröhle et al 2011) are increasingly important. However, the rapid disappearance of sandy beaches during the last 30 years in coasts and beaches worldwide cannot be solely explained by the above, and are, therefore, associated with human activities in coastal areas, such as the contstruction of new harbours in order to serve growing needs for fishing and/or, in the case of touristic areas, marinas.…”

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Beach Erosion and Consequential Impacts Due to the Presence of Harbours in Sandy Beaches in Greece and Cyprus

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Harbours with protruding breakwaters that are built on coasts cause alterations to the wave field, which attacks the coastline adjacent to the structures. As a result, sandy beaches often start eroding. Examples from Greece and Cyprus are presented, veryfying that the causes of the phenomenon, which are (i) the obstruction of longshore sand movement, and (ii) the longshore sand transport from the wave-action zone to the calm wave-shelter zone triggered by wave diffraction, work almost always simultaneously and none can be underestimated. A large discussion is held internationally indicating that although the construction of harbours is meant to enhance tourism and local economy, it very often leads to environmental and socioeconomic failure that are analysed in the present paper. In addition, the paper discusses the methods of beach protection in such cases and gives guidelines for following effective practices in Greece.

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Beach Erosion and Consequential Impacts Due to the Presence of Harbours in Sandy Beaches in Greece and Cyprus

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“…Fröhle [32] categorizes the following five policies of coastal protection with respect to coastal engineering: do nothing, managed realignment, hold the line, move seaward and limited intervention, while at the same time underlining that a direct separation of these strategies is usually not possible. Regardless of which pathway is chosen, there is a clear need for extensive adaptation measures that increase a delta's resilience to the aforementioned external and internal threats.…”

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Remote Sensing for the Quantification of Land Surface Dynamics in Large River Delta Regions—A Review

Kuenzer

Heimhuber

Huth³

et al. 2019

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River deltas and estuaries belong to the most significant coastal landforms on our planet and are usually very densely populated. Nearly 600 million people live in river deltas, benefiting from the large variety of locational advantages and rich resources. Deltas are highly dynamic and vulnerable environments that are exposed to a wide range of natural and manmade threats. Sustainable management of river deltas therefore requires a holistic assessment of historic and recent ongoing changes and the dynamics in settlement sprawl, land cover and land use change, ecosystem development, as well as river and coastline geomorphology, all of which is difficult to achieve solely with traditional land-based surveying techniques. This review paper presents the potential of Earth Observation for analyses and quantification of land surface dynamics in the large river deltas globally, emphasizing the different geo-information products that can be derived from medium resolution, high resolution and highest resolution optical, multispectral, thermal and SAR data. Over 200 journal papers on remote sensing related studies for large river deltas and estuaries have been analyzed and categorized into thematic fields such as river course morphology, coastline changes, erosion and accretion processes, flood and inundation dynamics, regional land cover and land use dynamics, as well as the monitoring of compliance with respect to anthropogenic activity such as industry expansion-related habitat destruction. Additionally, our own exemplary analyses are interwoven into the review to visualize related delta work.

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“…The results are moreover used by local authorities for the assessment of the future safety and effectiveness of the structures. Significant increases of the future extreme wave heights can lead to increasing loads on the structures, thus different adaptation measures have to be assessed depending on the preferred adaptation strategy (for more details see [20]). The wave dataset that has been analyzed was calculated by using a newly developed hybrid approach that consists of both empirical and numerical methods for the calculation of the wave conditions based on future projections of wind conditions from a regional climate model (COSMO-CLM [21] [22]) considering different future IPCC greenhouse gas emission scenarios (SRES [23]).…”

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Collecting Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Climate Data as Service for Adaptation Projects

Hennemuth¹,

Bender²,

Bülow³

et al. 2015

AJCC

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The development of adaptation measures to climate change relies on data from climate models or impact models. In order to analyze these large data sets or an ensemble of these data sets, the use of statistical methods is required. In this paper, the methodological approach to collecting, structuring and publishing the methods, which have been used or developed by former or present adaptation initiatives, is described. The intention is to communicate achieved knowledge and thus support future users. A key component is the participation of users in the development process. Main elements of the approach are standardized, template-based descriptions of the methods including the specific applications, references, and method assessment. All contributions have been quality checked, sorted, and placed in a larger context. The result is a report on statistical methods which is freely available as printed or online version. Examples of how to use the methods are presented in this paper and are also included in the brochure.

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Climate Change and Coastal Protection: Adaptation Strategies for the German Baltic Sea Coast

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Beach Erosion and Consequential Impacts Due to the Presence of Harbours in Sandy Beaches in Greece and Cyprus

Beach Erosion and Consequential Impacts Due to the Presence of Harbours in Sandy Beaches in Greece and Cyprus

Remote Sensing for the Quantification of Land Surface Dynamics in Large River Delta Regions—A Review

Collecting Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Climate Data as Service for Adaptation Projects

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