Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate

An integrative risk based approach for assessing and mitigating the effects of climate change on coastal structures

Barbara Zanuttigh (Edited by), Robert J. Nicholls (Edited by), Jean-Paul Vanderlinden (Edited by), Richard C. Thompson (Edited by), Hans Falk Burcharth (Edited by)

9780123973108, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 23 October 2014

670 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 4.1 cm, 0.93 kg

Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an international group of experts, Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate provides innovative, multidisciplinary best practices for mitigating the effects of climate change on coastal structures. Based on the Theseus program, the book includes eight study sites across Europe, with specific attention to the most vulnerable coastal environments such as deltas, estuaries and wetlands, where many large cities and industrial areas are located.

1. Methodology for Risk assessment
2. Engineering Mitigation Technologies
3. Ecologically-Based Mitigation Measures
4. Socio-Economic Mitigation Measures
5. Risk Assessment and Mitigation in THESEUS Study Sites
6. Towards Sustainable Decision-Making

Subject Areas: The environment [RN]