The Effect of Coastal City Development on Flood Damage in South Korea

Park, Hyung Jun; Paterson, Robert G.; Zigmund, Stephen; Shin, Hyun-Suk; Jang, Young-Su; Jung, Juchul

doi:10.3390/su12051854

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“…The implications that the progressive phenomena caused by sea level rise have on cities, such as flooding and erosion, take on a transient and non-static meaning that legislation and planning must be able to make explicit and coordinate. Moreover, integrating governance with urban planning and port planning can help manage urban development near ports to appropriate levels [54]. Understanding the prioritisation of vulnerability and adaptation issues at the community level can provide valuable base-level information [55].…”

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Climate Adaptation Plans in the Context of Coastal Settlements: The Case of Portugal

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The impact of sea-level rise on coastal towns is expected to be a major challenge, with millions of people exposed. The climate-induced risk assessment of coastal areas subject to flooding plays an essential role in planning effective measures for adaptation plans. However, in European legislation, as well as in the regional plans adopted by the member states, there is no clear reference to urban settlement, as this concept is variable and difficult to categorise from the policy perspective. This lack of knowledge makes it complicated to implement efficient adaptation plans. This research examines the presence of the issue in Portugal’s coastal settlements, the European coastal area most vulnerable to rising sea levels, using the case of seashore streets as the most exposed waterfront public urban areas. Using the morphometric classification of the urban fabric, we analyse the relationship between urban typology and legislative macro-areas aimed at providing integrated adaptation plans. The study suggests that there is only a minimal relationship between the proposed classification and the geographical zones currently identified in coastal planning policies. Such incongruence suggests the need for change, as the policy should be able to provide a response plan tailored to the specificities of urban areas.

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Climate Adaptation Plans in the Context of Coastal Settlements: The Case of Portugal

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“…This often ends in decisions for building projects in vulnerable landscapes or that are unnecessarily put at risk of climate hazards. This caused an increase in flood risk during the 2011 Brisbane floods [137] and significantly increased damage as a result of impervious surfaces and the urban development of wetlands in Florida [138]; the development of coastal cities increased the damage of floods in South Korea [139], and the risk of flooding increased significantly through the narrowing of the riverbed by urban development in Arnhem, the Netherlands [140]. Many of those decisions are not guided by nature's interests per se, which generally tends to make a dazzling amount of mini-decisions simultaneously.…”

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The Eco-Cathedric City: Rethinking the Human–Nature Relation in Urbanism

Roggema

2023

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Current planning of urban landscapes is dominated by a human-centric view. This leads to short-term orientation, predictable planning outcomes, and decisions being taken by a small group of humans. Alternatively, a symbiotic human–nature relationship could be a prelude to a balanced future in which sustaining all living organisms prevails. In this article, a novel approach to designing such an urban landscape is presented: the Eco-cathedric City. In this proposition, the design process thrives on high complexity, deep uncertainty, contingent nature–human relations, slow urbanism, and imaginability. It is concluded that three mechanisms should be core to this approach: (eco-)cathedral thinking, considering the impact of current decisions on seven future generations; (eco-)acupuncturist design, which plans for the process by igniting a single small intervention; and (eco-)cracy, in which a variety of actors, human and non-human organisms, co-decide. In a practical sense, the Eco-cathedric City finds its foundation in understanding local ecosystems and using this knowledge to design a self-organizing ecosystem in which regenerative resource management is prioritized, after which social constructs are formed to support this design and to fit human uses within the boundaries of this framework to conclude with an evolving belief system in which reciprocity and symbiocity are the core values.

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“…Due to their geographical advantages, coastal cities have more rapid economic and construction development and high and rapid urbanization rates and levels [17][18][19]. Its urban land use structures [20][21][22], ecosystems [23][24][25], and landscapes [26][27][28] tend to change rapidly in a relatively short period of time, making it more important to continuously assess ecological landscape risks in coastal cities.…”

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Dynamic Evaluation of Ecological Environment Quality in Coastal Cities from the Perspective of Water Quality: The Case of Fuzhou City

Liu

Huixian

2023

Sustainability

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Urbanization has led to enormous pressure on the urban ecological environment, especially in coastal cities. It is important to evaluate the ecological quality of coastal cities. We compared the remote sensing-based ecological index (RSEI) and the water benefit-based ecological index (WBEI) indices of Fuzhou City, and selected the WBEI to assess the changes in the quality of the ecological environment in Fuzhou City from 2000 to 2020 and analyzed the relevant changes in land intensity. The results show that (1) the Fuzhou WBEI outperforms the RSEI in the evaluation of ecological quality in the study area, since the WBEI takes into account water efficiency and can more accurately represent the ecological environment of coastal cities; (2) during 2000–2020, the overall trend of ecological quality in Fuzhou is better, with nonsignificant decreasing areas in the western and northern mountainous areas and a significant increasing trend in the southeast coast; and (3) different land use types influence the urban ecological environment quality, with forests and man-made surfaces having a good correlation with the WBEI. The increase in forests contributes to the improvement of urban ecological environment quality, and the conversion of high-intensity arable land and construction land decreases urban ecological environment quality. This study can provide a basic reference for the assessment of ecological environment quality in Fuzhou City and provide experience for the ecological environment assessment of coastal cities.

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The Effect of Coastal City Development on Flood Damage in South Korea

Cited by 8 publications

References 42 publications

Climate Adaptation Plans in the Context of Coastal Settlements: The Case of Portugal

Climate Adaptation Plans in the Context of Coastal Settlements: The Case of Portugal

The Eco-Cathedric City: Rethinking the Human–Nature Relation in Urbanism

Dynamic Evaluation of Ecological Environment Quality in Coastal Cities from the Perspective of Water Quality: The Case of Fuzhou City

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