Hurricane storm surge in Volusia County, Florida: evidence of a tipping point for infrastructure damage

Helderop, Edward; Grubesic, Tony H.

doi:10.1111/disa.12296

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“…The role of the storm surge is directly linked to the coastal susceptibility, since the most relevant response of a beach in terms of sensitivity is linked to severe extreme events that are typically associated with low-pressure weather systems characterized by geographic-related features, such as wintertime and summertime storms [47,48], tropical typhoons [44,49], and hurricanes [50,51]. Under the susceptibility viewpoint, the larger is the storm-surge height, the stronger and more severe is the impact on the beach.…”

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Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

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Postacchini

Luccio

et al. 2021

JMSE

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Coastal area constitutes a vulnerable environment and requires special attention to preserve ecosystems and human activities therein. To this aim, many studies have been devoted both in past and recent years to analyzing the main factors affecting coastal vulnerability and susceptibility. Among the most used approaches, the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) accounts for all relevant variables that characterize the coastal environment dealing with: (i) forcing actions (waves, tidal range, sea-level rise, etc.), (ii) morphological characteristics (geomorphology, foreshore slope, dune features, etc.), (iii) socio-economic, ecological and cultural aspects (tourism activities, natural habitats, etc.). Each variable is evaluated at each portion of the investigated coast, and associated with a vulnerability level which usually ranges from 1 (very low vulnerability), to 5 (very high vulnerability). Following a susceptibility/vulnerability analysis of a coastal stretch, specific strategies must be chosen and implemented to favor coastal resilience and adaptation, spanning from hard solutions (e.g., groins, breakwaters, etc.) to soft solutions (e.g., beach and dune nourishment projects), to the relocation option and the establishment of accommodation strategies (e.g., emergency preparedness).

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Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

Anfuso

Postacchini

Luccio

et al. 2021

JMSE

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“…Firstly, extreme weather events may modify the features of a country in terms of local productive capacities and therefore reduce its ability to absorb the flow of capital coming from the rest of the world (absorptive capacity). In fact, climate shocks generally damage the infrastructures; degrade human capital, deteriorate macroeconomic environment and may weaken institutions quality through violence, political unrest and civil war, among others (Hendrix and Salehyan, 2012;Burke et al 2015;Harari and Ferrara, 2018;Helderop and Grubesic, 2019). Helderop and Grubesic (2019) state that extreme weather events significantly degrade human capital and infrastructures.…”

Section: A How Climate Shocks May Affect the Financial Inflows-economic Growth Nexusmentioning

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“…In fact, climate shocks generally damage the infrastructures; degrade human capital, deteriorate macroeconomic environment and may weaken institutions quality through violence, political unrest and civil war, among others (Hendrix and Salehyan, 2012;Burke et al 2015;Harari and Ferrara, 2018;Helderop and Grubesic, 2019). Helderop and Grubesic (2019) state that extreme weather events significantly degrade human capital and infrastructures. This destruction of the absorptive capacity may reduce the economic returns of existing and additional capital, especially, financing coming from abroad.…”

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How do Climate Shocks Affect the Impact of FDI, ODA and Remittances on Economic Growth?

Drabo¹

2021

IMF Working Papers

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The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on some country characteristics such as human and physical capital constraint, macroeconomic policy and institutional capacity. This paper extends the literature by arguing that climate shocks may undermine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), official development assistance (ODA) and migrants' remittances on economic expansion. Based on neoclassical growth framework, the theoretical model indicates that FDI, ODA, and remittances improve economic growth, and the size of the effect increases with good absorptive capacity. However, climate shocks reduce this positive effect of financial flows in developing countries. Using a sample of low and middle-income countries from 1995 to 2018, the empirical investigation confirms the theoretical conclusions. Developing countries should build strong resilience to climate change. Actions are also needed at global level to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, and build strong structural resilience to climate shocks especially in developing countries.

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“…Remote sensing-data analysis also informs exposure to natural hazards of different intensities (Helderop and Grubesic 2019), hazard planning and preparedness. Slowonset natural hazards such as droughts can cause the drying up of vegetation, crop loss, food insecurity, and famines.…”

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Early Warning from Space for a Few Key Tipping Points in Physical, Biological, and Social-Ecological Systems

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In this review paper, we explore latest results concerning a few key tipping elements of the Earth system in the ocean, cryosphere, and land realms, namely the Atlantic overturning circulation and the subpolar gyre system, the marine ecosystems, the permafrost, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and in terrestrial resource use systems. All these different tipping elements share common characteristics related to their nonlinear nature. They can also interact with each other leading to synergies that can lead to cascading tipping points. Even if the probability of each tipping event is low, they can happen relatively rapidly, involve multiple variables, and have large societal impacts. Therefore, adaptation measures and management in general should extend their focus beyond slow and continuous changes, into abrupt, nonlinear, possibly cascading, high impact phenomena. Remote sensing observations are found to be decisive in the understanding and determination of early warning signals of many tipping elements. Nevertheless, considerable research still remains to properly incorporate these data in the current generation of coupled Earth system models. This is a key prerequisite to correctly develop robust decadal prediction systems that may help to assess the risk of crossing thresholds potentially crucial for society. The prediction of tipping points remains difficult, notably due to stochastic resonance, i.e. the interaction between natural variability and anthropogenic forcing, asking for large ensembles of predictions to correctly assess the risks. Furthermore, evaluating the proximity to crucial thresholds using process-based understanding of each system remains a key aspect to be developed for an improved assessment of such risks. This paper finally proposes a few research avenues concerning the use of remote sensing data and the need for combining different sources of data, and having long and precise-enough time series of the key variables needed to monitor Earth system tipping elements.

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Hurricane storm surge in Volusia County, Florida: evidence of a tipping point for infrastructure damage

Cited by 26 publications

References 65 publications

Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

How do Climate Shocks Affect the Impact of FDI, ODA and Remittances on Economic Growth?

Early Warning from Space for a Few Key Tipping Points in Physical, Biological, and Social-Ecological Systems

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