Nonstructural Approaches to Coastal Risk Mitigations

Vanderlinden, Jean Paul; Baztán, Juan Manuel Escudero; Coates, Tracey; Dávila, Osiel González; Hissel, François; Kane, Idrissa Oumar; Koundouri, Phoebe; McFadden, Loraine; Parker, Dennis J.; Penning‐Rowsell, Edmund C.; Pietrantoni, Luca; Pescaroli, Gianluca; Prati, Gabriele; Rulleau, Bénédicte; Stithou, Mavra; Touili, Nabil

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-397310-8.00005-1

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“…One of them is the accommodate approach, which includes strategies to reduce the consequences of an event, referred also as non-structural mitigation options, such as flood warning and emergency preparedness programs, flood insurance, land-use regulations, restrictions on development in areas of severe flood hazard, and property acquisition and relocation programs [171]. The adaptation technologies can be either technologies that comprise physical changes to accommodate increased flooding and erosion, and information systems that enhance the understanding and awareness of coastal risks and enable coastal populations to undertake appropriate responses to minimize the impact of these events.…”

Section: Coastal Adaptation Strategies Approachesmentioning

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Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

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Postacchini

Luccio

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Coastal area constitutes a vulnerable environment and requires special attention to preserve ecosystems and human activities therein. To this aim, many studies have been devoted both in past and recent years to analyzing the main factors affecting coastal vulnerability and susceptibility. Among the most used approaches, the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) accounts for all relevant variables that characterize the coastal environment dealing with: (i) forcing actions (waves, tidal range, sea-level rise, etc.), (ii) morphological characteristics (geomorphology, foreshore slope, dune features, etc.), (iii) socio-economic, ecological and cultural aspects (tourism activities, natural habitats, etc.). Each variable is evaluated at each portion of the investigated coast, and associated with a vulnerability level which usually ranges from 1 (very low vulnerability), to 5 (very high vulnerability). Following a susceptibility/vulnerability analysis of a coastal stretch, specific strategies must be chosen and implemented to favor coastal resilience and adaptation, spanning from hard solutions (e.g., groins, breakwaters, etc.) to soft solutions (e.g., beach and dune nourishment projects), to the relocation option and the establishment of accommodation strategies (e.g., emergency preparedness).

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Section: Coastal Adaptation Strategies Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

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Postacchini

Luccio

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“…Engineering is used for flood risk management in England by adapting the physical environment to reduce or alter flood risk. Here we define structural adaptation as the collective decision-making and use of soft and hard physical interventions, to support, maintain or develop existing natural or human risk reducing features, applied to local to system scales (French 2001;Dunlap and Brulle 2015;Vanderlinden 2015). Structural hard defences are generally built to last decades, although their lifetime can be extended by maintenance and upgrades; when the Thames Barrier is 50 years old in 2030, it will require substantial maintenance and the replacement of electrical and hydraulic systems to continue to reliably operate (Lavery and Donovan 2005).…”

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Managing coastal flood risk to residential properties in England: integrating spatial planning, engineering and insurance

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Brown

Nicholls

2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“…One could legitimately wonder whether a thawing situation constitutes an event stricto sensu. Finally, system-based resilience models are increasingly successful [54,55]. Such an approach is recognized for its ability to take into consideration the governance of complex socio-ecosystems, yet the singularity of events within the resilience paradigm does lend itself well to situations such as permafrost thaw which are progressive with a slow onset.…”

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Thawing Permafrost in Arctic Coastal Communities: A Framework for Studying Risks from Climate Change

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Thawing permafrost creates risks to the environment, economy and culture in Arctic coastal communities. Identification of these risks and the inclusion of the societal context and the relevant stakeholder involvement is crucial in risk management and for future sustainability, yet the dual dimensions of risk and risk perception is often ignored in conceptual risk frameworks. In this paper we present a risk framework for Arctic coastal communities. Our framework builds on the notion of the dual dimensions of risk, as both physically and socially constructed, and it places risk perception and the coproduction of risk management with local stakeholders as central components into the model. Central to our framework is the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration. A conceptual model and processual framework with a description of successive steps is developed to facilitate the identification of risks of thawing permafrost in a collaboration between local communities and scientists. Our conceptual framework motivates coproduction of risk management with locals in the identification of these risks from permafrost thaw and the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies.

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Nonstructural Approaches to Coastal Risk Mitigations

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

Coastal Sensitivity/Vulnerability Characterization and Adaptation Strategies: A Review

Managing coastal flood risk to residential properties in England: integrating spatial planning, engineering and insurance

Thawing Permafrost in Arctic Coastal Communities: A Framework for Studying Risks from Climate Change

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