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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"coastal erosion"”.
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Configuring Local Resilience to Coastal Erosion in Togo
<p>The West African coast is prey to an erosion washing away communities’ houses, livelihoods, and ancestral temples. By studying locals’ lived experiences and state resilience efforts my research investigates environmental and social issues and possibilities emerging from this climate disaster. I …
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Gravel barrier dynamics, coastal erosion and flooding risk
… the influence of gravel barrier dynamics on coastal erosion and flooding risk. Establishing the potential for coastal landforms to provide effective risk reduction is salient given growing momentum behind coastal management approaches seeking to incorporate ‘natural’ processes and landforms …
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Beach development, sediment budget and coastal erosion at Holderness.
… transport and morphology, and till cliff erosion. Modelled and measured sediment transport rates established for the Holderness coast are similar to those on comparable coasts elsewhere. The direction of sediment drift depends on wave approach, and determining sediment transport rates, …
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“We Look to the Water”: Coastal Erosion and the Transformation of shíshálh Cultural Landscapes
Rising sea levels, storm surges, and shoreline erosion are ongoing climate change effects that have produced tremendous impacts on Indigenous cultural heritage across the world. Few available studies have focused on how these impacts will affect heritage sites and cultural landscapes on the coast …
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Effect of mass wasting on soil organic carbon storage and coastal erosion in permafrost environments
… of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Coastal erosion, amplified through a decrease in Arctic sea-ice extent, may also mobilise SOC from permafrost. Large expanses of permafrost affected land are characterised by intense mass-wasting processes such as solifluction, active-layer …
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Factors influencing the capacity of communities to respond to coastal erosion in the upper Gulf of Thailand
… communities must have a capacity to ameliorate coastal erosion impacts. Since coastal erosion operates over long time frames, understanding this capacity, or the abilities of communities to respond to the impacts and recover to maintain community functions, requires analysis of the past and the …
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Advancing Arctic coastal erosion measurement and monitoring through UAV-SfM, satellite imagery, and object-based image analysis
… and exhibit some of the highest rates of erosion in the World due to the presence of permafrost. Rates of erosion are expected to increase with warming air and water temperatures, reductions in Arctic sea ice extent and duration, sea level rise, and increased storm severity and frequency. …
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A Comparison of Natural, Living, and Hardened Shorelines Ability to Prevent Coastal Erosion and Maintain a Healthy Ecosystem
… methods, hardened, and living shorelines, of coastal protection for when the natural marsh suffers excess erosion rates. Living shorelines are a suite of shoreline conservation and restoration techniques that usually involve some sort of hardened structure that dampens wave energy so that the …
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Oyster reefs as alternatives to mitigate coastal erosion: A study of hydrodynamics and sediment transport around oyster castles
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Coastal Erosion Hazard in Bangladesh: Space-time pattern analysis and empirical forecasting, impacts on land use/cover, and human risk perception
Coastal areas are vulnerable to different natural hazards, including hurricanes, cyclones, tsunami, floods, coastal erosion, and saltwater intrusion. These hazards cause extensive social, ecological, economic, and human losses. Continued climate change and sea-level rise is expected to …
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Struggling against the Sea in Ban Khun Samut Chin: Environmental Knowledge, Community Identity and Livelihood Strategies in a Village Fighting Severe Coastal Erosion on the Gulf of Thailand
This research project investigates how a coastal community in the Upper Gulf of Thailand has been dealing with a local ecological crisis, the rapid erosion of their coastline and potential loss of the entire territory of their village. The case study examines the community’s interactions with …
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Governing coastal risk: the case of Langebaan's disappearing shoreline
The coastal zone is the dynamic interface between land and sea and is under immense threat from increasing coastal population and development trends as well as global climate change. Given global and regional sea level rise projections, coastal African countries including South African are highly …
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Patterns and Associations of Shoreline Erosion and Developed Land Use Change in the Lower Meghna Estuary of Bangladesh
… and economic resources due to the hazards of coastal erosion. Scientific research has indicated that 70% of the planet's sandy coastal environment is being impacted by coastal erosion. Due to the different characteristics of the lands in the coastal zone versus other areas, it is important to …
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Spatial Distribution of Suspended Sediments within the Chesapeake Bay Using Remote Sensing
… appear to represent river input sediment while coastal erosion sediment appears to be in a light green color. In the standard false color composite, green shades of suspended sediment coincide with the river input sediment, while lighter blue and teal shades are concurrent with the coastal …
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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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Adaptation Narratives: Climate Change and Environmental Politics in Mexican Costal Communities
… climate change adaptation initiatives in coastal lagoon communities in the Mexican state of Tabasco, in the Gulf of Mexico. My analysis of the government’s climate change adaptation initiatives, scientists’ explanations, and fishers’ views on local environmental changes is based on …
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Spatio-temporal analysis of coastal sediment erosion in Cape Town through remote sensing and geoinformation science
Coastal erosion can be described as the landward or seaward propagation of coastlines. Coastal processes occur over various space and time scales, limiting in-situ approaches of monitoring change. As such it is imperative to take advantage of multisensory, multi-scale and multi-temporal modern …
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Climate change, perceived human environment changes, and adaptation responses in coastal Indigenous community of Akplabanya, Ghana
Coastal communities are facing unprecedented challenges as impacts of climate change continue to escalate globally. Rising sea levels, intensified storm activity, and coastal erosion are extreme climate impacts noticed frequently in coastal communities. Indigenous coastal communities in Ghana are …
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Investigation of Neotectonic Activity within the Shallow, Unconsolidated Stratigraphy of the Pearl River Delta Area, Louisiana
… Louisiana in the form of wetland loss and coastal erosion. This study, within the Pearl River Delta Area of Louisiana, applied geomorphologic and stratigraphic methods of analysis to assess whether evidence of recent fault motion is present within the shallow, unconsolidated Holocene strata …
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