Earth observation and coastal climate services for small islands

Rölfer, Lena; Winter, Gundula; Costa, María Máñez; Celliers, Louis

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2020.100168

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“…Substituting N(x, t) in the form (21) in Equation ( 4), we easily find that the 'tilded' density obeys the conventional diffusion Equation (3) considered above,…”

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Cities on the Coast and Patterns of Movement between Population Growth and Diffusion

Kovalevsky

Volchenkov

Scheffran

2021

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Sea level rise and high-impact coastal hazards due to on-going and projected climate change dramatically affect many coastal urban areas worldwide, including those with the highest urbanization growth rates. To develop tailored coastal climate services that can inform decision makers on climate adaptation in coastal cities, a better understanding and modeling of multifaceted urban dynamics is important. We develop a coastal urban model family, where the population growth and urbanization rates are modeled in the framework of diffusion over the half-bounded and bounded domains, and apply the maximum entropy principle to the latter case. Population density distributions are derived analytically whenever possible. Steady-state wave solutions balancing the width of inhabited coastal zones, with the skewed distributions maximizing population entropy, might be responsible for the coastward migrations outstripping the demographic development of the hinterland. With appropriate modifications of boundary conditions, the developed family of diffusion models can describe coastal urban dynamics affected by climate change.

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“…Substituting N(x, t) in the form (21) in Equation ( 4), we easily find that the 'tilded' density obeys the conventional diffusion Equation (3) considered above,…”

Section: Reduction To the Simple Diffusion Modelmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Coastal cities are particularly endangered due to the high density of urban populations and the vulnerability of critical infrastructures [16]. With tailored climate services informing regional and local decision making on climate adaptation [17][18][19][20], coastal cities in particular need coastal climate services [21,22].…”

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Cities on the Coast and Patterns of Movement between Population Growth and Diffusion

Kovalevsky

Volchenkov

Scheffran

2021

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“…Such active management as part of local coastal governance and by local actors requires science-based information. This includes information about external drivers, such as climate and environmental change, as well as economic development, but also internal drivers such as local information including Indigenous and traditional knowledge about experienced change or cultural values (Rölfer et al 2020). Even though there may be much data and information available for coastal systems, its integration into local planning remains challenging.…”

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Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation

Rölfer¹,

Celliers²,

Abson³

2022

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Several intergovernmental agreements highlight the need for resilience in the face of environmental and societal challenges. Coastal systems are particularly complex and susceptible to global climate change, and building human resilience to future changes is of high priority. While the concept of resilience has historically been associated with stability to perturbations, the notion of transformation within the social-ecological resilience (SER) approach has recently gained importance in ecosystem management. In order to operationalize resilience in the context of coastal governance in a changing climate, a better understanding of the concept is required. This paper provides an overview of different approaches to resilience, including stability and transformation, in order to understand resilience as a concept in a coastal governance context. Subsequently, we propose five steps and three types of knowledge (system, target, transformative) with which to embed SER in coastal governance. In addition, we consider scale and system boundaries; identify (un)desirable system characteristics and the role of normative goals and common visions in resilience management. Finally, we highlight the central role that local actors and information services play in fostering a two-way exchange between science and society and tailoring solutions for establishing or enhancing SER to the needs of local actors. We conclude that the navigation between stability and transformation within the concept of resilience is central to finding sustainable future pathways in the face of climate change.

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“…Forest management planning consists of establishing the objectives to be achieved and establishing the phases to achieve correct forest management: (i) preliminary evaluation at the environmental, legal, administrative and socio-cultural levels; (ii) make inquiries; (iii) define the management objectives, (iv) zoning the forest area; (v) calculate the sustainable yield of wood and non-wood products; (vi) prepare the forest management plan, (vii) execute the field management plan; and (viii) monitor and evaluate the measures adopted through the use of criteria and indicators [65][66][67].…”

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Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research

Abad-Segura

González-Zamar

Vázquez‐Cano

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Research Highlights: the wide variety of multispectral sensors that currently exist make it possible to improve the study of forest systems and ecosystem services. Background and Objectives: this study aims to analyze the current usefulness of remote sensing in forest management and ecosystem services sciences, and to identify future lines of research on these issues worldwide during the period 1976–2019. Materials and Methods: a bibliometric technique is applied to 2066 articles published between 1976 and 2019 on these topics to find findings on scientific production and key subject areas. Results: scientific production has increased annually, so that in the last five years, 50.34% of all articles have been published. The thematic areas in which more articles were linked were environmental science, agricultural, and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences. Seven lines of research have been identified that generate contributions on this topic. In addition, the analysis of the relevance of the keywords has detected the ten main future directions of research. The growing worldwide trend of scientific production shows interest in developing aspects of this field of study. Conclusions: this study contributes to the academic, scientific, and institutional discussion to improve decision-making, and proposes new scenarios and uses of this technology to improve the administration and management of forest resources.

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Earth observation and coastal climate services for small islands

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Cities on the Coast and Patterns of Movement between Population Growth and Diffusion

Cities on the Coast and Patterns of Movement between Population Growth and Diffusion

Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation

Remote Sensing Applied in Forest Management to Optimize Ecosystem Services: Advances in Research

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