Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Zones

Nicholls, Robert J.; Cazenave, Anny

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“…The appropriate response to SLR is to adapt to it (Nicholls and Cazenave, 2010). Adaptation involves both technical and sociopolitical issues (Naylor et al, 2012), which should be substantially integrated into wider coastal management and development planning.…”

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“…These rises are expected to accelerate through the 21st century (Nicholls and Cazenave, 2010). For instance, geological and tide-gauge data worldwide indicate that mean sea-level rise (SLR) was 1.7 mm/yr between 1961 and 2008 and 3.26 mm/yr between 1993 and 2008, respectively, suggesting that the SLR is accelerating at a global scale (Ablain et al, 2009;Church et al, 2011).…”

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“…Direct consequences include submergence, flooding, saltwater intrusion and shoreline retreat, as well as coastal habitat loss (Michener et al, 1997;Pilkey and Cooper, 2004;Hopkinson et al, 2008;Ranasinghe and Stive, 2009). These physical impacts in turn have resulted in significantly negative socioeconomic consequences, such as flooding of urban roadways and coastal lands (Nicholls and Cazenave, 2010).…”

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“…Understanding non-climatic components of SLR is therefore critical to monitoring, assessment and adaptation to SLR effects. However, anthropogenic factors for SLR have long been neglected because of their local features and uncertainty, even though they are widespread (Nicholls and Cazenave, 2010).…”

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Coastal use accelerated the regional sea-level rise

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Ocean & Coastal Management

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a b s t r a c tCoastal zones are highly threatened by global sea-level rise (SLR), but human-induced change in SLR is often neglected in many studies. Identifying the influences of coastal use on regional SLR and their interactions is helpful to effectively respond to SLR. In this paper, we analyzed the relationship between SLR, coastal use and rising temperature at the provincial level in mainland China since 2000. The results show that there is significant correlation between increasing coastal use and SLR, but that relationship between temperature rising and SLR is not significant. This supports our hypothesis that coastal use can accelerate regional SLR on Chinese coasts, especially in the Bohai Sea. We also discuss the potentially influential mechanism of one important coastal use, reclamation, on SLR in the Bohai Sea and present suggestions for both coastal use management and adaptation to SLR for this region.

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Coastal use accelerated the regional sea-level rise

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“…The sea level raises and its actual consequences on coastal erosion are still rather unknown [3]. The sea level rise will favor erosion since waves will reach higher elevations in the upper beach [4].…”

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Exploring and Studying the Shoreline Erosion Using Different Airborne Missions: An Example in Egypt North Coast

Mohammed¹,

Elhanafy²

2014

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Abstract-The climate changes cause sea level variation which varies spatial and temporal significantly, and it is now possible to reconstruct how sea level varied globally and regionally with time. The sea level rose faster than the global mean since 1950 is now a fact, and although it is not the only reason for shoreline erosion but it has a significant effects on the processes of shoreline erosion. The wave's actions are a dominant cause of shoreline erosion, even if affected by higher sea level rise rates. The research project reported in this paper investigates the shoreline erosion in the north coast of Egypt. Also the negative effects have been studied using new method. The developed methodology depends on using a stationary control measuring points instead of measuring the water depths near the shore line as previous researchers get used to apply in their studies.Index Terms-Sea level rise, climate change, coastal erosion, north coast of Egypt.

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Sea level rise and its coastal impacts

2014

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Global warming in response to accumulation of human-induced greenhouse gases inside the atmosphere has already caused several visible consequences, among them increase of the Earth's mean temperature and ocean heat content, melting of glaciers, and loss of ice from the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets. Ocean warming and land ice melt in turn are causing sea level to rise. Sea level rise and its impacts on coastal zones have become a question of growing interest in the scientific community, as well as in the media and public. In this review paper, we summarize the most up-to-date knowledge about sea level rise and its causes, highlighting the regional variability that superimposes the global mean rise. We also present sea level projections for the 21st century under different warming scenarios. We next address the issue of the sea level rise impacts. We question whether there is already observational evidence of coastal impacts of sea level rise and highlight the fact that results differ from one location to another. This suggests that the response of coastal systems to sea level rise is highly dependent on local natural and human settings. We finally show that in spite of remaining uncertainties about future sea levels and related impacts, it becomes possible to provide preliminary assessment of regional impacts of sea level rise.

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Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Zones

Cited by 2,070 publications

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Coastal use accelerated the regional sea-level rise

Coastal use accelerated the regional sea-level rise

Exploring and Studying the Shoreline Erosion Using Different Airborne Missions: An Example in Egypt North Coast

Sea level rise and its coastal impacts

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