Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: A review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 123, Issue , 2016, Pages 18-43

  Nguyen, Thang T X ^a,c   Bonetti, Jarbas ^a,b   Rogers, Kerrylee ^a   Woodroffe, Colin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c Ministry of Industry and Trade   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Coastal hazards; Indices; Resilience; Risk; Sea level rise; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL HAZARDS; INDICES; RESILIENCE; SEA LEVEL RISE; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL ZONE; DECISION MAKING; NATURAL HAZARD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; STANDARDIZATION; TYPOLOGY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84957553746     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.11.022     Document Type: Review

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