The aim of this work is to propose and analyse factors for the construction of an index of vulnerability to contamination of urbanised coastal karst aquifers. Due to the high anthropic modifications of the territories, the city of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, was taken as the study area. Four factors were addressed: relief, climate, sea level ri...
Globally, communities, ecosystems, and assets situated within the coastal zone will likely experience increased risk in the future owing to chronic and acute pressures associated with climate change and associated sea level rise. Gravel barrier islands represent an intermediate pathway between seaward hazards and vulnerable landward receptors and p...
Published in Climatic Change
Climate change poses significant challenges and impacts to coastal communities. In order to limit future coastal flood risk, adaptation is necessary. This study presents an integrated model to simulate storm surge inundation risk in Osaka Bay under climate change and provide a cost–benefit analysis of structure adaptation strategies to reduce risk....
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Global sea level is expected to rise consistently in the future, causing severe damage to the coastal areas and threatening nearby populations. Malaysian coast has numerous low-lying areas, which are at risk of inundation resulting from the increment of sea level, particularly in Kelantan coast. In this study, the potential vulnerability impact of ...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Recent works have shown that the low-lying islands of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean are expanding rather than shrinking. Here we explain why, by analyzing the long-term tide gauge records, corrected for subsidence by Global Positioning System monitoring. We find the absolute sea levels are rising much slower than in climate model predictions. Th...
Estuarine intertidal flats comprise valuable ecosystems and act as an important sediment source for the adjacent salt marsh systems. However, accelerating sea-level rise threatens the mudflats and associated ecosystems, where the mudflat accretion lag behind sea level rise. A reliable forecast on the morphological developments of the mudflat under ...
Published in Science and Engineering Ethics
Value sensitive design (VSD) aims at creating better technology based on social and ethical values. However, VSD has not been applied to long-term and uncertain future developments, such as societal planning for climate change. This paper describes a new method that combines elements from VSD with scenario planning. The method was developed for and...
The Hollandsche IJssel storm surge barrier is expected to last another 40 years, but replacement or renovation may be needed sooner than anticipated due to factors such as climate change and societal developments. Yet, there is relatively little known about what factors and how these factors influence the remaining life, and methods that can be use...
Climate change is increasingly becoming more impactful on our society. Recent events such as the extreme rainfall in the summer of 2021 in Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands and hurricane Ida in Mississippi (USA), caused severe floodings and damages in these areas. Climate change, in turn, leads to an increase in sea level rise, making flood pron...
