Search Results - subject:"Coastal Vulnerability"

Smart management of tourist coastal areas in a reborn tourism era : transitioning from safe to sustainable beaches within the Spanish sun and sand model

Martínez del Vas, Ginesa; Puig-Cabrera, Miguel; … - In: Journal of tourism, sustainability and well-being 12 (2024) 1, pp. 21-34

The aim of this work is the reconceptualisation of beaches as internal objects of smart tourist destinations and to offer a means to capitalize pandemic distintictives such as the Safe Tourism Certification (STC) on the physical pressure of the coastal tourist space to contribute to the natural...

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Local adaptation and unintended coastal vulnerability : the effect of beach nourishment on residential development in North Carolina

Li, Xiaoyu; Gopalakrishnan, Sathya; Klaiber, H. Allen - In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and … 11 (2024) 3, pp. 523-548

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Possibilities of a gender-responsive infrastructure for livelihood-vulnerable women's resilience in rural-coastal Bangladesh

Islam, Md. Azharul; Shetu, Muntaha Marzan; Hakim, … - In: Built Environment Project and Asset Management 12 (2022) 3, pp. 447-466

Purpose With the simultaneous increase of natural hazards and land- and resource-vulnerable women in the rural coasts of Bangladesh, large- and medium-scale infrastructure and livelihood programmes by government and non-government-organisations have been plenty. Yet, gender-responsive and...

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Coastal vulnerability assessment using analytical hierarchical process for South Gujarat coast, India

Mahapatra, Manik; Ramakrishnan, Ratheesh; Rajawat, A. - In: Natural Hazards 76 (2015) 1, pp. 139-159

majority of formerly developed coastal vulnerability/sensitivity indices acknowledge that the addition of socioeconomic … integrated to compute the ICVI. According to the criteria of coastal vulnerability, as defined in this study, the coastal segment … variables would assist to identify vulnerable areas. The present study therefore is an attempt to develop an integrated coastal …

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Addressing Coastal Vulnerability at the Village Level : The Role of Socio-economic and Physical Factors

Das, Saudamini - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

Vulnerability to extreme events is usually addressed for macro units (districts or provinces) whereas the relative vulnerability of micro units may be more useful to a policy maker. The present study addresses the vulnerability of coastal villages to cyclones and storm surge risks and identifies...

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Coastal vulnerability assessment: a case study on erosion and coastal change along Tuticorin, Gulf of Mannar

Parthasarathy, Anitha; Natesan, Usha - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 2, pp. 1713-1729

ecological security status. However, coastal vulnerability assessments require a complex dataset including human and socio …-economic factors. In this study, we investigated coastal vulnerability index (CVI) to map the vulnerability of Tuticorin coast toward … sea level rise are the major factors affecting the coastal vulnerability in Tuticorin. CVI scores were categorized into …

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Coastal vulnerability assessment for Chennai, east coast of India using geospatial techniques

Kumar, A. Arun; Kunte, Pravin - In: Natural Hazards 64 (2012) 1, pp. 853-872

Ocean tsunami and during 2008 Nisha cyclone. The present study aims to develop a Coastal Vulnerability Index for the Chennai …

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The role of natural ecosystems and socio-economic factors in the vulnerability of coastal villages to cyclone and storm surge

Das, Saudamini - In: Natural Hazards 64 (2012) 1, pp. 531-546

Vulnerability assessment due to tropical storms has been attempted for larger spatial units, and the roles played by natural ecosystems like mangroves or hydrological variables like proximity to rivers or various socio-economic factors determining economic well-being are rarely taken into...

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Particular Aspects of Littoral of Senegal in a New Climatic Perspectives

NDIAYE, Cheikhou Oumar; KANE, Alioune; PUSCASU, Violeta; … - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2011) 1, pp. 17-26

The shoreline is an environment that serves as an interface between continent and sea. The analysis offers a succession of natural ecosystems and socio-economic installations. The space remains under the influence of the urbanization, the development of tourism, the seaports, the fisheries, etc....

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A modelling approach for estimating the frequency of sea level extremes and the impact of climate change in southeast Australia

McInnes, K.; Macadam, I.; Hubbert, G.; J. O’Grady - In: Natural Hazards 51 (2009) 1, pp. 115-137

An efficient approach for evaluating storm tide return levels along the southeastern coastline of Australia under present and future climate conditions is described. Storm surge height probabilities for the present climate are estimated using hydrodynamic model simulations of surges identified...

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