Assessment of the Coastal Vulnerability to the Ongoing Sea Level Rise for the Exquisite Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece)
| Autor: | Dimitra I. Malliouri, Stelios Petrakis, Fragkiska-Karmela Gad, Ioannis P. Panagiotopoulos, Dimitrios Vandarakis, Vasilios Kapsimalis, Aikaterini Kikaki, Paraskevi Drakopoulou, Theodore D. Kanellopoulos, Georgios-Angelos Hatiris, Vassiliki Loukaidi, Ioannis Morfis, Maria Chatzinaki |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
accelerated sea level rise
coastal tourism Vulnerability index Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes business.industry Geography Planning and Development Flooding (psychology) Environmental resource management Vulnerability Distribution (economics) Climate change coastal vulnerability index Hydraulic engineering Aquatic Science coastal vulnerability mitigation strategy Biochemistry Natural (archaeology) Geography Private property business TC1-978 TD201-500 Tourism Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Water, Vol 13, Iss 2169, p 2169 (2021) Water Volume 13 Issue 16 |
| ISSN: | 2073-4441 |
| Popis: | The foreseeable acceleration of global sea level rise could potentially pose a major threat to the natural charm and functional integrity of the world-renowned tourist coastal attractions of Rhodes Island, as a result of the anticipated increasing frequency of flooding and erosion events. Hence, this study aims to determine the most vulnerable segments (in terms of physical impact) of the Rhodes coastline through the widely accepted coastal vulnerability index (CVI), applying a combination of well-known, broadly used approaches and methods. The frequency distribution of the current CVI along the island’s coastline suggests a rather worrying high to very high vulnerability of 40%. In addition, a CVI projection to the end of the 21st century (based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predictive scenarios) indicates an enhancement of the total vulnerability by 48%, mainly focused on the majority of the western coastline. Hence, a considerable number of popular coastal destinations in the island shall remain under unignorable threat and, therefore, coastal managers and decision-makers need to hatch an integrated plan to minimize economic and natural losses, private property damage and tourism infrastructure deterioration from flooding and erosion episodes, which will most likely be intensified in the future. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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