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Climate change and coastal vulnerability assessment: scenarios for integrated assessment
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In this paper, the authors explore the development of relevant climate and non-climate drivers, with an emphasis on the nonclimate drivers and illustrate using the widely used SRES scenarios, with both impacts and adaptation being considered.Abstract:
Coastal vulnerability assessments still focus mainly on sea-level rise, with less attention paid to other dimensions of climate change. The influence of non-climatic environmental change or socio-economic change is even less considered, and is often completely ignored. Given that the profound coastal changes of the twentieth century are likely to continue through the twenty-first century, this is a major omission, which may overstate the importance of climate change, and may also miss significant interactions of climate change with other non-climate drivers. To better support climate and coastal management policy development, more integrated assessments of climatic change in coastal areas are required, including the significant non-climatic changes. This paper explores the development of relevant climate and non-climate drivers, with an emphasis on the non-climate drivers. While these issues are applicable within any scenario framework, our ideas are illustrated using the widely used SRES scenarios, with both impacts and adaptation being considered. Importantly, scenario development is a process, and the assumptions that are made about future conditions concerning the coast need to be explicit, transparent and open to scientific debate concerning their realism and likelihood. These issues are generic across other sectors.read more
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Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Zones
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Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea-level rise and coastal flooding--a global assessment.
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Putting vulnerability to climate change on the map: a review of approaches, benefits, and risks
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Changing coasts: marine aliens and artificial structures
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Coastal adaptation with ecological engineering
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TL;DR: In this article, the use of combined approaches to coastal adaptation in lieu of a single strategy, such as sea-wall construction, allows for better preparation for a highly uncertain and dynamic coastal environment.
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