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: Received: 25 April 2021 / Approved: 28 April 2021 / Online: 28 April 2021 (10:18:36 CEST)
How to cite:
Wu, T. Quantitative Coastal Resilience Assessment Framework under Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. Preprints2021, 2021040740. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0740.v1
Wu, T. Quantitative Coastal Resilience Assessment Framework under Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. Preprints 2021, 2021040740. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0740.v1
Wu, T. Quantitative Coastal Resilience Assessment Framework under Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. Preprints2021, 2021040740. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0740.v1
APA Style
Wu, T. (2021). Quantitative Coastal Resilience Assessment Framework under Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0740.v1
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Wu, T. 2021 "Quantitative Coastal Resilience Assessment Framework under Climate Change and Sea Level Rise" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202104.0740.v1
Abstract
Accompanied by increasing population growth and urban sprawl, most coastal cities are unprecedentedly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts, such as sea level rise, increasing extreme storm events, and coastal flooding. Coastal resilience and sustainable development are antidotes to vulnerability; they aim to enhance the adaptive capability of absorbing disturbances and resisting uncertainty. This study explores building a quantitative assessment framework to measure resilience and provide an objective and comparable method to understand the strengths and weaknesses in a given region. The proposed 25 resilience indicators incorporate the aspects of essential livelihood protection, infrastructure and natural resource maintenance, emergency facilities and institutions, floodplain management regulations, and adaptive planning process. Each indicator is assigned the resilience quality that includes robustness, resourcefulness, redundancy, and rapidity. The aggregated resilience quality scoring reflects the systematic performance of the city to cope with the coastal hazards. The innovative part of this framework is combining hazard mitigation measures, climate adaptation strategies, and sustainable development goals together to achieve a comprehensive assessment method. In the case of New Haven, the resilience assessment is taken as a practical monitoring tool and decision-making support.
Keywords
coastal resilience; climate change; indicators; social-ecological system
Subject
Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
