Version 1
: Received: 11 August 2023 / Approved: 14 August 2023 / Online: 14 August 2023 (10:03:59 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 15 April 2024 / Approved: 15 April 2024 / Online: 16 April 2024 (10:46:22 CEST)
How to cite:
Olanrewaju, O.S.; Lazzaro, U. Review of Nature-Based Echo-Hydraulic Aqua-Forest Technology for Coastal Resilience and Sea Level Rise Climate-Induced Adaptation. Preprints2023, 2023081017. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1017.v1
Olanrewaju, O.S.; Lazzaro, U. Review of Nature-Based Echo-Hydraulic Aqua-Forest Technology for Coastal Resilience and Sea Level Rise Climate-Induced Adaptation. Preprints 2023, 2023081017. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1017.v1
Olanrewaju, O.S.; Lazzaro, U. Review of Nature-Based Echo-Hydraulic Aqua-Forest Technology for Coastal Resilience and Sea Level Rise Climate-Induced Adaptation. Preprints2023, 2023081017. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1017.v1
APA Style
Olanrewaju, O.S., & Lazzaro, U. (2023). Review of Nature-Based Echo-Hydraulic Aqua-Forest Technology for Coastal Resilience and Sea Level Rise Climate-Induced Adaptation. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1017.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Olanrewaju, O.S. and Unberto Lazzaro. 2023 "Review of Nature-Based Echo-Hydraulic Aqua-Forest Technology for Coastal Resilience and Sea Level Rise Climate-Induced Adaptation" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1017.v1
Abstract
One-fifth of the world’s population and critical infrastructures are near the coast and regions at high risk of sea level elevation. Climate change is expected to increase coastal extreme events, rising sea levels, and impact on the ecosystem. Hard engineering, like seawalls, has been used to prevent, protect, and control water-based environmental forces with an extended impact on the land. A nature-based engineering solution, such as growing vegetation, is being adopted as a sustainable solution to help make existing technology live its design life and provide climate change adaptation and resilience for coastal and riverine communities. This paper presents review of seaweed farms as an advanced nature-based mitigation approach. The paper also presents the result obtained from experiments conducted at RWTH Aachen University hydraulic lab on a model test of the wave damping system using seaweed as a nature-based solution to test the hypothesis. One result involving a system with two lines of seaweed revealed 15 percent wave damping. A soft engineering approach to designing future vegetated protection systems using seaweed as a nature-based solution can help existing coastal infrastructure design life and protect against climate-induced SLR rise and adaptation, coastal risk mitigation, ecosystem restoration, and blue bio-economic development.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science and Technology
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