Towards coastal risk management in France

Deboudt, Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.04.013

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“…However, awareness can rise rapidly due to extreme events, as illustrated by the case of the Xynthia storm and surge in France in 2010, which caused more than 50 deaths and significant economic damages on the Atlantic coast [62]. After this event, the French risk prevention regulations were modified to improve coastal hazard maps [63] by defining standards to model coastal processes such as storm surge and wave setup [64] and to consider future SLR. To avoid heterogeneous responses along the coastlines driven by individual municipality selections, the scientific community concerned with SLR was consulted, and a standardized fixed sea level projection of +60 cm by the end of the 21st century was defined and included into the regulation [65].…”

Section: Example 3: French Coastal Climate Servicesmentioning

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Sea Level Change and Coastal Climate Services: The Way Forward

Cozannet

Nicholls

Hinkel

et al. 2017

JMSE

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For many climate change impacts such as drought and heat waves, global and national frameworks for climate services are providing ever more critical support to adaptation activities. Coastal zones are especially in need of climate services for adaptation, as they are increasingly threatened by sea level rise and its impacts, such as submergence, flooding, shoreline erosion, salinization and wetland change. In this paper, we examine how annual to multi-decadal sea level projections can be used within coastal climate services (CCS). To this end, we review the current state-of-the art of coastal climate services in the US, Australia and France, and identify lessons learned. More broadly, we also review current barriers in the development of CCS, and identify research and development efforts for overcoming barriers and facilitating their continued growth. The latter includes: (1) research in the field of sea level, coastal and adaptation science and (2) cross-cutting research in the area of user interactions, decision making, propagation of uncertainties and overall service architecture design. We suggest that standard approaches are required to translate relative sea level information into the forms required to inform the wide range of relevant decisions across coastal management, including coastal adaptation.

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Section: Example 3: French Coastal Climate Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sea Level Change and Coastal Climate Services: The Way Forward

Cozannet

Nicholls

Hinkel

et al. 2017

JMSE

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“…Ballinger et al ( 2002 ) and others (Greiving et al 2006 ) have noted the rather disappointing and overestimated involvement of spatial planning in risk management across UK and many other countries of Europe, attributing this to a range of factors including the inadequate training and understanding of risk by planners, as well as the mere advisory nature of risk assessment and associated advice. Over the last decade, this has been supplemented by Natural Risk Prevention Plans (Plan de Prévention des Risques) to control development within various risk zones, including coastal areas ( Deboudt 2010 ). Article 8(2) of the ICZM Protocol to the Barcelona Convention states that contracting parties (i.e.…”

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“…In both regions, human use of the coastal area increased drastically during the second half of the 20th century (e.g. Deboudt, 2010;Cazes-Duvat and Paskoff, 2004). However, current regulations and coastal risk prevention plans prevent unlimited urbanisation of the seafront.…”

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An AHP-derived method for mapping the physical vulnerability of coastal areas at regional scales

Cozannet

Garçin

Bulteau

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Assessing coastal vulnerability to climate change at regional scales is now mandatory in France since the adoption of recent laws to support adaptation to climate change. However, there is presently no commonly recognised method to assess accurately how sea level rise will modify coastal processes in the coming decades. Therefore, many assessments of the physical component of coastal vulnerability are presently based on a combined use of data (e.g. digital elevation models, historical shoreline and coastal geomorphology datasets), simple models and expert opinion. In this study, we assess the applicability and usefulness of a multi-criteria decision-mapping method (the analytical hierarchy process, AHP) to map physical coastal vulnerability to erosion and flooding in a structured way. We apply the method in two regions of France: the coastal zones of Languedoc-Roussillon (north-western Mediterranean, France) and the island of La Réunion (south-western Indian Ocean), notably using the regional geological maps. As expected, the results show not only the greater vulnerability of sand spits, estuaries and low-lying areas near to coastal lagoons in both regions, but also that of a thin strip of erodible cliffs exposed to waves in La Réunion. Despite gaps in knowledge and data, the method is found to provide a flexible and transportable framework to represent and aggregate existing knowledge and to support long-term coastal zone planning through the integration of such studies into existing adaptation schemes

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Towards coastal risk management in France

Cited by 24 publications

References 22 publications

Sea Level Change and Coastal Climate Services: The Way Forward

Sea Level Change and Coastal Climate Services: The Way Forward

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An AHP-derived method for mapping the physical vulnerability of coastal areas at regional scales

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