Assessment of Vulnerability and Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise for the Coastal Zone of Germany

Sterr, Horst

doi:10.2112/07a-0011.1

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“…The implications of SLR to the North Sea coastline have been assessed in various papers on a country-wide scale, e.g. by de la Vega-Leinert and Nicholls (2008) for Great Britain, Lebbe et al (2008) for Belgium, Van Koningsveld et al (2008) for the Netherlands, Sterr (2008) for Germany, Fenger et al (2008) for Denmark, Aunan and Romstad (2008) for Norway and Paskoff (2004) for France. Long-term management plans including an allowance for future sea-level rise are being formulated in the region from the scale of critical coastal infrastructure (Wilby et al, 2011) to specific regions (e.g.…”

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Observed mean sea level changes around the North Sea coastline from 1800 to present

Wahl¹,

Haigh²,

Woodworth³

et al. 2013

Earth-Science Reviews

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This paper assesses historic changes in mean sea level around the coastline of the North Sea, one of the most densely populated coasts in the world. Typically, such analyses have been conducted at a national level, and detailed geographically wider analyses have not been undertaken for about 20 years. We analyse long records (up to 200 years) from 30 tide gauge sites, which are reasonably uniformly distributed along the coastline, and: (1) calculate relative sea level trends; (2) examine the inter-annual and decadal variations; (3) estimate regional geocentric (sometimes also referred to as 'absolute') sea level rise throughout the 20 th century; and (4)

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Observed mean sea level changes around the North Sea coastline from 1800 to present

Wahl¹,

Haigh²,

Woodworth³

et al. 2013

Earth-Science Reviews

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“…Around the world, studies have calculated how much to spend on adaptations at specific case study locations now to avoid future damages using a benefit-cost analysis (Genovese et al 2011;Hall et al 2003Hall et al , 2005Kazama et al 2010;McLeod et al 2010;Snoussi et al 2009;Sterr 2008;Wang et al 2010;Yohe et al 1996). Some others have considered the social factors that can foster or impede adaptation in coastal communities (Abel et al 2011).…”

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“…Although economics plays a part in both equitability and affordability, most studies of the drivers of community adaptation have been qualitative (Abel et al 2011;Sterr 2008), with few providing a quantitative underpinning for their analysis (Granger 2003;McGranahan et al 2007). At the other end of the spectrum, many quantitative studies have analysed the overall economic costs of inundation to infrastructure (Genovese et al 2011;Hall et al 2003;McLeod et al 2010;Sterr 2008;Wang et al 2010;Yohe et al 1996) and property values (Bin et al 2011;Yohe et al 1996). Others have estimated the potential benefits of different adaptations (Wang et al 2010).…”

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Economic, equitable, and affordable adaptations to protect coastal settlements against storm surge inundation

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The distribution of risk of coastal inundation, and the potential benefits of adapting to protect against inundation, vary greatly both within and between coastal communities. This diversity is a result of physical factors, such as the risk of storm surge, sea level rise projections, and the topography of the landscape, as well as socio-economic factors, such as the level of development, and the capacity within the community to adapt. Despite this strong local variation, various communities share common characteristics that constrain or enable different adaptation options in different situations. Understanding these drivers is likely to be important in engaging coastal communities in the discussion around adaptation and may provide new insights into which adaptation options are suitable for each of our at-risk coastal communities. We performed a property-level analysis of 6 suburb-sized case studies distributed along the coast of Queensland, Australia. We assessed the potential economic costs of inundation events now and in the future under sea level rise projections, and the potential avoided costs following adaptation to protect against inundation. We went beyond this to estimate the distribution of risk in each community and compared the potential costs of adaptation with the capacity of the community to pay for their implementation. We used these insights to propose a typology of coastal communities based on their exposure to total inundation risk, the distribution of that risk within the community, and their capacity to adapt.

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“…In the past, the prime barrier in understanding vulnerability analysis has been a lack of information and data [12]. However, recent development image processing techniques and spatial data gathering, including Geographic Information System (GIS) and satellite remote sensing, have helped to overcome this constraint.…”

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Sea Level Rise and Coastal Vulnerability along the Eastern Coast of India through Geo-spatial Technologies

Pramanik¹,

Biswas²,

Mukherjee³

et al. 2016

J Remote Sensing & GIS

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The study emphasizes the local and regional level coastal vulnerability in the context of climate change induced present sea level rise using Sea level and tidal gauge data and advanced geo spatial technologies along the eastern coast of India. The coast is a potential hot spot zone were found the immediate effect of sea level rise. Presently climate change induced global warming and the melting of ice sheets and continental glaciers continually increase the sea level, which leads the natural hazards such as Tsunami, storm surges, thermal expansion of sea water and cyclones. The study was used SRTM global DEM with 90 m resolution to derive the coastal elevation, inundation risk zones along the eastern coast of India. The sea level rise scenario has been explained by using a 5 th order polynomial curve which also interpolates and extrapolate the gaps within the available data of four tidal gauge stations. The results show that northern portion (Ganga-Brahmaputra delta region) of the coast, mostly affected by the sea level rise (4.7 mm per year) where the Sundarban region is the most vulnerable region due to the lower elevation (ranges 0 to 20 m) and higher tidal influence. Also Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar have a higher rate of sea level rise respectively 0.73 and 0.43 which increase the erosional activity and probable inundation level. As this study reveals the level of vulnerability, it helps to develop mitigation and adaptation measures in those most vulnerable areas to sea level rise problems. The final results support and suggests planners and decision makers in the spatial identification for the future strategies.

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Assessment of Vulnerability and Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise for the Coastal Zone of Germany

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Cited by 131 publications

References 10 publications

Observed mean sea level changes around the North Sea coastline from 1800 to present

Observed mean sea level changes around the North Sea coastline from 1800 to present

Economic, equitable, and affordable adaptations to protect coastal settlements against storm surge inundation

Sea Level Rise and Coastal Vulnerability along the Eastern Coast of India through Geo-spatial Technologies

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