With continuing influx of large numbers of people into coastal regions, human stresses on coastal ecosystems and resources are growing at the same time that climate variability and …
RE Deyle, WH Butler - Disaster Resiliency, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
The resilience of coastal communities has long been precarious as the coastal environment is a highly dynamic system, prone to shocks from the wind, waves, and surges of coastal …
JM Brown, P Ciavola, G Masselink… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2016 - nhess.copernicus.org
Storms across the globe and their associated consequences in coastal zones (flooding and erosion), combined with the long-term geomorphic evolution of our coastlines, are a threat to …
Climate change poses increasingly severe risks for coastal ecosystems and coastal communities all around the globe. This condition requires implementing climate adaptation …
Y Zhang, Z Ouyang, C Xu, T Wu, F Lu - Environmental and Sustainability …, 2024 - Elsevier
When compounded by climate change, ecosystem degradation puts coastal communities at increased vulnerability to hazards. However, there have been few quantitative assessments …
ABSTRACT Van Dongeren, A., Ciavola, P., Viavattene, C., De Kleermaeker, S., Martinez, G., Ferreira, O., Costa C., R. McCall, 2014. RISC-KIT: Resilience-Increasing Strategies for …
Approximately 11% of the world's population lives within 10 km of an ocean coastline, a percentage that is likely to increase during the remainder of the 21st century due to …