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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"COASTAL HAZARDS"”.
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Geographical Analysis of Offender Vulnerability: Modeling Coastal Hazards and Social Disorganization in Southern Mississippi
<p>Hazards research continually examines how specific groups are affected by damaging events and how their unique sociodemographic characteristics contribute to variations in resilience and recovery. Studies have shown that underprivileged communities suffer more adversely and take longer to …
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On the use of Statistical Downscaling for the Study of Coastal Hazards in the Pacific
… efforts trying to understand and predict coastal hazards have increased as a result of the large number of studies predicting future intensification of storms and increasing rates of sea level rise. This has urged the need to develop and/or improve early warning systems in order to reduce …
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Coastal hazards assessment and sustainable management in Essaouira (Morocco): hydrogeological, hydrological, geophysical, geomorphological, and geotechnical approaches
A província de Essaouira, no litoral de Marrocos, enfrenta um conjunto complexo de riscos naturais e induzidos pelo homem. Em resposta a estes desafios, foi efetuado um estudo abrangente para avaliar os riscos em Essaouira, analisar a dinâmica dos perigos e propor medidas de atenuação específicas. …
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Public perceptions of the functions of natural and engineered infrastructure in coastal hazards mitigation: the cases of two communities in the Raritan bayshore, New Jersey
… and natural infrastructure in mitigating coastal hazards. For such policies to be effectively implemented, the mitigation functions of and relationship between natural infrastructure and engineered infrastructure must be understood and their integrated use accepted by affected actors, …
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Modelling the economic implications of coastal managed retreat
… shorelines and flood properties. Managing these coastal hazards requires assessing the risk and economic impact of medium-term planning options. One such planning option available to governments in New Zealand is large-scale managed retreat. However, it requires research to examine how to …
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Nature-Based Coastal Adaptation: A Comparative Assessment to Inform Effective Implementation
As coastal adaptation planning becomes the new normal, governments have increasingly shifted a significant portion of new infrastructure from hardened “gray” structures toward natural and “nature-based” solutions (NbS): restored or constructed ecosystems that, by enhancing or mimicking natural …
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Diatom-based reconstructions of earthquake-induced paleoenvironmental change in coastal Alaska and Washington, USA
… evidence of earthquake occurrence within the coastal stratigraphy over much longer temporal scale, thus improving our understanding of the behavior of subduction zone earthquakes. Diatoms preserved within coastal stratigraphic records are sensitive to earthquake-induced environmental change …
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Living With Water: How Flexible Structure Types Build Resilience in a Dynamic Landscape？
Coastal cities of the United States have suffered and will suffer great loss from flood-related hazards. Governments and organizations have taken many strategies to prevent, mitigate, and recover from their impact. When the episodic hazards, however, are accompanied with chronological threat—namely …
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Modeling Hourly Storm Surges using Deep Learning Techniques
<p>Storm surges cause coastal flooding, one of the most devastating coastal hazards. Accurate modeling of storm surges is essential for predicting and mitigating these impacts. Traditional approaches model surges at individual tide gauges and often focus on daily time scales, leading to data …
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Key Drivers of Coastal Relocation in Spatial Clusters Along the US East Coast
Coastal flooding has been increasing in frequency and severity across the US East Coast, adversely impacting the human population. Preferred adaptation strategies, such as protection and accommodation, may prove insufficient under current climate change scenarios and projected future sea level …
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The Invisible People of the Invisible Coast: The Resilience of People Experiencing Homelessness to Disasters on the Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Gulf Coasts
… on vulnerability and resilience with regard to hazards, very few studies have researched the resilience of homeless populations. The Gulf Coast region is densely populated and susceptible to natural and anthropogenic hazards. Climate change studies indicate that this region will experience an …
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Wind-Driven Sea Surface Wave and Coastal Water Level Dynamics Across Different Spatial Scales
… propagate over long distances towards vulnerable coastal regions. Complex factors that impact the properties of surface waves, including wind, topography, and water levels, must be incorporated into numerical models to achieve accurate simulations of the wave climate. Predictions of the offshore …
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The MEso-SCAle Particle Transport model (MESCAPT) for studying sediment dynamics during storms and tsunamis
Tsunamis and storms are the most devastating coastal hazards that can cause great loss of life and infrastructure damage. To assess tsunami and storm hazard, the magnitude and frequency of each type of event are needed. However, major tsunamis and storms are very infrequent, especially tsunamis, …
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Understanding changes in mangrove forests and the implications to community livelihood and resource management in Kenya
Mangrove forests support the livelihoods of many coastal communities in developing countries. Mangrove forests around the world are being lost due to a combination of human and natural pressures. There is an intricate relationship between resource use and degradation and resource-dependent …
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The Duty to Adapt to Climate Change
… that global warming will cause sea-levelrise and coastal inundation and that may cause extensive damage to coastalproperty owners. There is little we can do to prevent these coastal hazards, but wecan adapt to climate change. This dissertation explores the possibility of theexistence of a legal …
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A Spatial Dynamic Model of Population Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Environment
Achieving coastal sustainability in low-lying coastal areas is a great challenge. This study developed a spatial dynamic model to study the coupled natural-human responses in the form of population changes in the Lower Mississippi River Basin region. The goal was to identify the key social-economic …
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Geodetic and Geodynamic Constraints on Vertical Land Motions in the Chesapeake Bay
… relative sea-level changes and their associated coastal hazards for communities in the Chesapeake Bay region.
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The modification of arctic permafrost coastlines
… Arctic will likely result in greater rates of coastal retreat. An increase in coastal erosion would result in dramatic increases in the volume of sediment, organic carbon and contaminants to the Arctic Ocean. These in turn have the potential to create dramatic changes in the geochemistry and …
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Performance-Based Coastal Engineering Framework
The changing dynamics of coastal regions and climate pose severe challenges to coastal communities around the world. Such challenges are exacerbated by an increase in population over time coupled with the aging of existing infrastructure, rise in property value, and the expected shifts in the …
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