Download or read book The Potential of Using Managed Realignment to Mitigate the Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the Cornwallis Estuary written by Alison R. MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broad Scale Coastal Simulation written by Robert J. Nicholls and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal zones exemplify the environmental pressures we face: their beauty attracts settlement, they offer potential for diverse economic activities, and they are sensitive natural habitats for important species, as well as providing a range of ecosystem services. They are also extremely vulnerable to the vicissitudes of climate change, which include rising sea levels and changes in extreme events such as storms. With large populations living in coastal and estuarine cities facing the ongoing threat of inundation, coordinated management is essential, especially as coastal zones form a linked system in which piecemeal, uncoordinated management could be counterproductive.
Download or read book Ocean Energy and Coastal Protection written by Rafael J. Bergillos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the innovative concept of the dual function of wave farms as both renewable energy generators and coastal protection elements against erosion and flooding. Developing renewable energy is one of the most pressing targets for society in the coming decades due to the finite nature of fossil fuels, their high costs, and the environmental impacts of their exploration and use, including climate change and the subsequent sea-level rise. Wave energy is one of the most promising renewable energy sources, thanks to its huge potential and low impact on the environment. As such, this book discusses the development and application of artificial intelligence to optimise wave farm location and layout, assesses the influence of the wave energy converter geometry on coastal protection against erosion and flooding, and analyses how the performance of wave farms as coastal defence elements is affected by climate change and sea level rise. The concepts, methods and conclusions presented are helpful to students, researchers, academics, engineers, designers, stakeholders and managers around the globe interested in wave energy, coastal engineering, and coastal management.
Download or read book Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone written by Chad J. McGuire and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as humans have been inhabiting coastal areas and recording what occurs in their environments, coastal zones have been defined through dynamic interactions. And this is further underlined by a more recent development: observed sea level rise. In a thorough but not overly technical approach, Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone: Law and Policy Considerations provides a legal-policy framework for facing the challenges of sea level rise. The book includes an analysis of sea level rise adaptation strategies that examines the legal impacts of coastal land use decisions based on the current interpretation of private property rights in relation to public control over those rights. The author discusses the science behind sea level rise and highlights policy complexities and options. He then presents an overview of related legalities, and bringing it all together, applies the principles offered in the book, concluding with strategies and solutions and a perspective on the future. If we accept the premise that sea level rise is occurring and will continue for the foreseeable future, then we must begin to consider policy responses to this risk in coastal regions. Part of any pragmatic policy response must include a review of the options available to public institutions when developing and implementing rational adaptation policies. This book offers practical legal/policy approaches to sea level rise adaptation that promotes sound planning in the face of climate change and rising seas.
Download or read book Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climate written by Laura J. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents chapters, written by leading coastal scientists, which collectively depict the current understanding of the processes that shape barrier islands and barrier spits, with an emphasis on the response of these landforms to changing conditions. A majority of the world’s population lives along the coast at the dynamic intersection between terrestrial and marine ecosystems and landscapes. As narrow, low-lying landforms, barriers are especially vulnerable to changes in sea level, storminess, the geographic distribution of grass species, and the rate of sand supply—some barriers will undergo rapid changes in state (e.g., from landward migrating to disintegrating), on human time scales. Attempts by humans to prevent change can hasten the loss of these landforms, threatening their continued existence as well as the recreational, financial and ecosystem service benefits they provide. Understanding the processes and interactions that drive landscape response to climate change and human actions is essential to adaptation. As managers and governments struggle to plan for the future along low-lying coasts worldwide, and scientists conduct research that provides useful guidance, this volume offers a much-needed compilation for these groups, as well as a window into the science of barrier dynamics for anyone who is generally interested in the impacts of a changing world on coastal environments.
Download or read book Coastal Change Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities written by Marcha Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the fields of coastal science, community resilience, habitat restoration, sustainable landscape architecture and floodplain management. By highlighting ocean-friendly innovations and strategies being applied in coastal cities today, this book illustrates ways to cohabit with many other species who share the waterfront with us, feed in salt marshes, bury their eggs on sandy beaches, fly south over cities along the Atlantic Flyway, or attach themselves to an oyster reef. This book responds to the need for inventive, practical, and straightforward ways to weather a changing climate while being responsible shoreline stewards.
Download or read book Land Abandoned to the Sea written by Stuart Oliver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, address the new realities of the environment and move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.
Download or read book The Seven Steps to the Assessment of the Vulnerability of Coastal Areas to Sea Level Rise written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Advisory Group on Assessing Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise and Coastal Zone Management and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coastal Adaptation to Sea Level Rise Effects of Residential Proximity to the Coast Climate Change Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Government for Valuing Ecosystem Outcomes written by Kristin B Raub and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a changing climate, there has been an increase in the frequency and severity of hazards impacting coastal communities. Traditionally, hard defenses (sea walls) have been constructed to protect these communities, even though they can have negative impacts throughout the nearby coastal environment. There has been increasing consideration of alternative shoreline protection strategies, such as living shorelines, or managed retreat. However, each of these coastal management strategies comes with a series of monetary, environmental, and social tradeoffs making individual preferences dependent on multiple scenario-specific attributes. Ecosystem service valuation is a useful tool for understanding how humans relate to the environment around them. Since human and coastal systems are highly interlinked, it is important that researchers and those involved in coastal management better understand how humans value the environment that they are changing when designing coastal adaptation strategies. As such, this study explores the role of perception when valuing coastal protection alternatives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, namely, how one perceives climate change, attitude towards the government, and the proximity of one's residence to the coastline. Data from a stated preference survey was used to estimate a two-class latent class model. In general, members of both classes prefer plans that include a living shoreline. While none of the government attitude, proximity, or climate change variables were found to be significant in the latent class model, they did provide insight into the characteristics of respondents who always chose the same stated preference choice question plan.
Download or read book Managed retreat a discussion of its applicability in upper estuarine saltmarsh environments under rising sea level conditions written by J. MANT and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potential Effects of Sea Level Rise on the Fraser River Estuary written by Brian A. Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change Mitigation Natural Coastal Assets written by Jason Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Development and incompatible land uses, upon and adjacent to tidal wetlands and saltmarshes, pose a current and impending threat to these sensitive coastal habitats and their capacity to adapt to sea level rise. In late 2009 a study was conducted by University of Tasmania researchers (in Prahalad et al. 2009), for the Derwent Estuary Program (DEP), and funded by NRM South, to assess potential saltmarsh and tidal wetland extent in the Derwent estuary in 2100 under a high level IPCC sea-level projection (110 cm AHD). The study indicates that there is definite potential for tidal wetlands and saltmarshes to migrate upland, provided the land use is compatible with colonisation by these habitat types. Some refuge areas lie within public land, which can be designated for future wetland conservation. However, most areas identified as future tidal wetland and saltmarsh habitat lie within private land and as such may benefit from appropriate local government planning. The outcome of previous discussions about this study, between the DEP and local government planning staff in municipalities bordering the estuary, was the recommendation that the DEP draft a relevant regional planning overlay for further discussion. The current paper presents this draft planning overlay, which has been called the 'natural coastal processes' overlay"--Summary.
Download or read book Hydrologic Dynamics in Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Stresses on a Barrier Island Saltwater Intrusion and Inundation written by Kyle Prock and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on groundwater systems on barrier islands are not well documented in the literature. Globally, there is high competition for useable land in coastal regions because large populations of people live along the coast. If useable land and freshwater resources are lost to saltwater intrusion through sea-level rise or groundwater pumping, coastal communities may experience challenges with meeting high costs of mitigating resulting effects. The goals of this study were to (i) evaluate the impact of sea-level rise and groundwater pumping on saltwater intrusion in the surficial aquifer using an analytical model, and (ii) to evaluate how changes in tidal amplitudes due to sea-level rise may influence groundwater levels in surficial aquifers on barrier islands. To establish if groundwater pumping or sea-level rise has the greatest impact on saltwater intrusion models were used to delineate the location of the toe of the freshwater-saltwater interface as a proxy for the area of the aquifer that was lost to saltwater intrusion. The second objective was to assess the extent of marine and groundwater inundation under different tidal amplitude and sea-level rise scenarios using geospatial procedures. The results show that the percentage of the aquifer occupied by saltwater intrusion due to sea-level rise is greater (51%) than the percentage of the aquifer occupied by saltwater due to consumptive groundwater pumping (34%) for comparable magnitudes of movement of the toe of the saltwater wedge. The results also indicate that when tidal amplitudes are increased by 20%, marine inundation is greater (5%) than groundwater inundation (2%) in the most extreme sea level rise scenario (i.e., 1.5 m of sea-level rise by the year 2100). The results of this study provide estimates of potential changes in groundwater levels that could impact coastal communities and the amount of land that may become impaired. The results can also help water managers understand potential changes to the groundwater system and determine viable solutions to consequences. The relevance of this research is that it will help provide insight on how sea-level rise and groundwater pumping may affect saltwater intrusion and groundwater levels in surficial aquifers on barrier islands.
Download or read book Submerging Coasts the Effects of a Rising Sea Level on Coastal Environments written by E. C. F. Bird and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards an Integrated Coastal Simulator of the Impact of Sea Level Rise in East Anglia written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coastal zones are at particular risk from climate change because of the potential effects of sea-Ievel rise on the structure and distribution of a range of natural, rural and urban landscapes. The challenge taken up here is to explore how the predicted impacts of sea level rise on the geomorphology, biodiversity and socio-economic activities of the East Anglian coastline can be integrated in a Regional Coastal Simulator so that all the relevant policy options can be explored. Specifically this project provides two key elements for a Regional Coastal Simulator: biodiversity and off-shore coastal defence. The coastline of East Anglia is of critical importance for biodiversity within the UK. An assessment will be made of the predicted impacts of sea level rise on that biodiversity and on how biodiversity changes can be related to changing geomorphology and socio-economic activities within the Coastal Simulator at a range of scales. Particular attention will focus on the wildfowl and wading birds that are of international importance within the region, linking predicted changes in sea level to sediment transport, population models and biodiversity management responses. Sediment transport and dynamics are seen as critical components of the Coastal Simulator affecting both biodiversity and coastal geomorphology. Computational fluid dynamics will be used to explore the possible use of off-shore sea-guides and naturally grown islands or peninsulas to protect vulnerable areas of coastline. A range of computer simulations will be used to identify optimum sea-guide configurations and the potential for inducing self-accretion of sand to protect vulnerable coasts. ."--Summary Web page.
Download or read book Impacts of Managed Realignment on Low lying Coasts written by Daniel Friess and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards an Integrated Coastal Simulator of the Impact of Sea Level Rise in East Anglia written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coastal zones are at particular risk from climate change because of the potential effects of sea-Ievel rise on the structure and distribution of a range of natural, rural and urban landscapes. The challenge taken up here is to explore how the predicted impacts of sea level rise on the geomorphology, biodiversity and socio-economic activities of the East Anglian coastline can be integrated in a Regional Coastal Simulator so that all the relevant policy options can be explored. Specifically this project provides two key elements for a Regional Coastal Simulator: biodiversity and off-shore coastal defence. The coastline of East Anglia is of critical importance for biodiversity within the UK. An assessment will be made of the predicted impacts of sea level rise on that biodiversity and on how biodiversity changes can be related to changing geomorphology and socio-economic activities within the Coastal Simulator at a range of scales. Particular attention will focus on the wildfowl and wading birds that are of international importance within the region, linking predicted changes in sea level to sediment transport, population models and biodiversity management responses. Sediment transport and dynamics are seen as critical components of the Coastal Simulator affecting both biodiversity and coastal geomorphology. Computational fluid dynamics will be used to explore the possible use of off-shore sea-guides and naturally grown islands or peninsulas to protect vulnerable areas of coastline. A range of computer simulations will be used to identify optimum sea-guide configurations and the potential for inducing self-accretion of sand to protect vulnerable coasts. ."--Summary Web page.
