On the coastal erosion risk assessment indexes

DOI

10.2991/jrarc.2013.3.3.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Coastal erosion, risk assessment, index

Abstract

China is one of the most severely affected countries by coastal erosion. About 70% of the sandy beaches and most of muddy tidal flat in open water regions are erode. Coastal erosion results in the width of beach being narrowed, bathing beach destruction, coast-protection facilities and roads collapse, and wetland deterioration. These destructions bring many losses to the local people. However, previous coastal erosion studies focused on the hazard of erosion and paid less attention to the risk of erosion. Therefore, it’s necessary to study the mechanism of coastal erosion and build the coastal erosion risk assessment system for the effective coastal management. On the basis of the existed researches, this paper builds the coastal erosion risk assessment index system which contains hazard index system and vulnerability index system. The index system is expected to provide a practical theoretical basis for coastal erosion risk assessment.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lifen Xu
AU  - Shiyong Wen
AU  - Dongzhi Zhao
AU  - Xuegong Xu
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013/11/01
TI  - On the coastal erosion risk assessment indexes
JO  - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
SP  - 146
EP  - 155
VL  - 3
IS  - 3
SN  - 2210-8505
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrarc.2013.3.3.4
DO  - 10.2991/jrarc.2013.3.3.4
ID  - Xu2013
ER  -