The role of data within coastal resilience assessments: an East Anglia, UK, case study

Rumson, Alexander G.; Payo, Andrés; Hallett, Stephen R

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.105004

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“…Shamaskin et al, 2020). The extension of these analyses to encompass a wider range of resilience-related measures has become feasible with the growing availability of open datasets that provide insights into not just the geographical variation in hazards but also their consequences for coastal systems (Rumson et al, 2020).…”

Section: Reframing Resilience For Coastal Management: a Pragmatic Appmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This work is provided by the authors as a means to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly work on a non-commercial basis. *** example, Rumson et al (2020) Some aspects of resilience, such as loss of life or certain economic damage costs, can be evidenced via direct measures. Others, such as those relating to the capacity for recovery following a hazard event, can presently only be approximated by surrogate or proxy measures (e.g.…”

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Operationalising coastal resilience to flood and erosion hazard: A demonstration for England

Townend¹,

French²,

Nicholls³

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Resilience is widely seen as an important attribute of coastal systems and, as a concept, is increasingly prominent in policy documents. However, there are conflicting ideas on what constitutes resilience and its operationalisation as an overarching principle of coastal management remains limited. In this paper, we show how resilience to coastal flood and erosion hazard could be measured and applied within policy processes, using England as a case study. We define resilience pragmatically, in economic, environmental and social terms, integrating what is presently a disparate set of policy objectives for coastal areas. Our definition includes several dimensions of resilience and we develop a set of composite indicators for each of these, grounded empirically with reference to national geospatial datasets. A prototype model has been developed, which generates a quantitative resilience index for a given geographical unit (England's coastal hazard zone being represented at a high spatial resolution, about 8,000 areal units). A range of different stakeholder perspectives are captured using relative indicator weightings. The illustrative results presented here demonstrate the practicality of formalising and quantifying resilience, and the insights obtained mainly concern this process of operationalisation. To re-focus national policy around the stated desire of enhancing resilience to coastal flooding and erosion would require firm commitment from government to develop an approach to monitor progress towards resilience, extending the present risk-based approach. This requires a consensus methodology in which stakeholder values are explicitly considered, and also requires incentives for coastal managers to engage with and apply this new approach. Such a transition would challenge existing governance arrangements at national and local levels, requiring more integration and inter-agency cooperation. However, it could provide a robust evidence-based framework for achieving more sustainable, equitable and societally acceptable adaptive responses to climate change at the coast.

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Section: Reframing Resilience For Coastal Management: a Pragmatic Appmentioning

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Section: Quantification Of Coastal Resiliencementioning

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Operationalising coastal resilience to flood and erosion hazard: A demonstration for England

Townend¹,

French²,

Nicholls³

et al. 2022

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“…In this context, the current scientific literature provides us with different physical and morphological parameters that have been proposed to build models to evaluate the sensitivity of coasts [11,12]. Unfortunately, even if there is no defined system for resilience assessment in vulnerable coastal areas, often due to a lack of indicators [13], eventual assessments should generally integrate approaches from quite diverse fields of research and match a heterogeneous set of normative requirements that allow public and private stakeholders to use the coasts.…”

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An Integrated Approach to Analyze Sedimentary Stock and Coastal Erosion in Vulnerable Areas: Resilience Assessment of San Vicenzo’s Coast (Italy)

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García-Ayllón

et al. 2020

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The assessment of coastal erosion risk is a major challenge, since environmental and geomorphic features, together with sea state parameters, can seriously change the configuration of coastal areas. In addition, the anthropic actions of the coastal communities may also drastically modify the configuration of the coast in vulnerable areas. In this study, a linkage between regional mapping guidelines and national geological cartography procedures is presented as a meaningful tool in the geomorphic trends analysis for the integrated mapping of the main morphological patterns of San Vincenzo’s coastal area, in the region of Tuscany (Italy). Comparing and joining different procedures—which have different scales and topics—requires adapting the fields and the information provided in maps and databases. In this case study, a GIS morpho-sedimentological approach is developed. This GIS approach enables us to cover several issues simultaneously, such as the representation of coastal active processes, the adaptation of regional and national cartography to coastal erosion assessment, and lastly the calculation of the sedimentary stock analysis, since it represents the first attribute of coasts to be preserved in a resilience-oriented integrated assessment.

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“…It should be integrated within these methodologies. On the other hand, a resilience assessment was also carried out considering previous studies, based on diagnostic indicators (García-Ayllón, 2017;Rumson et al, 2019a). Both groups of studies highlighted certain limits; they comprised geomorphological features missed to properly set the analyzed system, data sources and numerous metrics hard to evaluate at a large scale (beyond regional).…”

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“…These tools are used to map, to analyze and even define physical parameters. Some example are the X-Band wave radar to determine bathymetry and sea state parameters, wide set of sonars and geophysical instruments to the modelling of geological settings, etc.. (Anfuso and Martínez Del Pozo, 2009;Bishop et al, 2012;Kumar et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2012;Mullick et al, 2019;Narra et al, 2019;Punzo et al, 2016;Rączkowska and Zwoliński, 2015;Rumson et al, 2019bRumson et al, , 2019aSeto et al, 2011) .They permit the exploration of hardly reachable places, and overall enables us to observe them, and their physical characters, at different timeframes and with different scales. In fact, maps can display the extension of the processes and their feedback to the system, as well as showing the possible risk scenarios, resulting as a primary tool to evaluate and communicate it to other professionals and stakeholders in the clearest way (Rangel-Buitrago et al, 2020;Veersalu et al, 2011).…”

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Coastal resilience potential as a coefficient of the coastal erosion risk assessment, and the management of risk areas via nature-based solutions

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The role of data within coastal resilience assessments: an East Anglia, UK, case study

Cited by 30 publications

References 94 publications

Operationalising coastal resilience to flood and erosion hazard: A demonstration for England

Operationalising coastal resilience to flood and erosion hazard: A demonstration for England

An Integrated Approach to Analyze Sedimentary Stock and Coastal Erosion in Vulnerable Areas: Resilience Assessment of San Vicenzo’s Coast (Italy)

Coastal resilience potential as a coefficient of the coastal erosion risk assessment, and the management of risk areas via nature-based solutions

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