Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale

Coastal zones are under increasing risk as coastal hazards increase due to climate change and the consequences of these also increase due to on-going economic development. To effectively deal with this increased risk requires the development of validated tools to identify coastal areas of higher ris...

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Autores: Ferreira, O., Viavattene, Christophe, Jiménez Quintana, José Antonio|||0000-0003-0900-4684
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/115456
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/115456
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.10.005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Coast changes--Spain
Climatic changes--Risk assessment
Coastal risk
Risk assessment tools
Storm impacts
Canvis costaners
Canvis climàtics -- Avaluació del risc
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Enginyeria hidràulica, marítima i sanitària::Ports i costes
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spelling Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scaleFerreira, O.Viavattene, ChristopheJiménez Quintana, José Antonio|||0000-0003-0900-4684Coast changes--SpainClimatic changes--Risk assessmentCoastal riskRisk assessment toolsStorm impactsCanvis costanersCanvis climàtics -- Avaluació del riscÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Enginyeria hidràulica, marítima i sanitària::Ports i costesCoastal zones are under increasing risk as coastal hazards increase due to climate change and the consequences of these also increase due to on-going economic development. To effectively deal with this increased risk requires the development of validated tools to identify coastal areas of higher risk and to evaluate the effectiveness of disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures. This paper analyses the performance in the application of two tools which have been developed in the RISC-KIT project: the regional Coastal Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF) and a hotspot early warning system coupled with a decision support system (EWS/DSS). The paper discusses the main achievements of the tools as well as improvements needed to support their further use by the coastal community. The CRAF, a tool to identify and rank hotspots of coastal risk at the regional scale, provides useful results for coastal managers and stakeholders. A change over time of the hotspots location and ranking can be analysed as a function of changes on coastal occupation or climate change. This tool is highly dependent on the quality of available information and a major constraint to its application is the relatively poor availability and accessibility of high-quality data, particularly in respect to social-economic indicators, and to lesser extent the physical environment. The EWS/DSS can be used as a warning system to predict potential impacts or to test the effectiveness of risk reduction measures at a given hotspot. This tool provides high resolution results, but needs validation against impact data, which are still scarce. The EWS/DSS tool can be improved by enhancing the vulnerability relationships and detailing the receptors in each area (increasing the detail, but also model simulations). The developed EWS/DSS can be adapted and extended to include a greater range of conditions (including climate change), receptors, hazards and impacts, enhancing disaster preparedness for effective risk reduction for further events or morphological conditions. Despite these concerns, the tools assessed in this paper proved to be valuable instruments for coastal management and risk reduction that can be adopted in a wide range of coastal areas.Peer Reviewed20182018-04-0120182018-03-20journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/115456https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.10.005reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)InglésengEuropean Commission http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011102 Seventh Framework Programme 603458 Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coastsopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1154562026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
title Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
spellingShingle Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
Ferreira, O.
Coast changes--Spain
Climatic changes--Risk assessment
Coastal risk
Risk assessment tools
Storm impacts
Canvis costaners
Canvis climàtics -- Avaluació del risc
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Enginyeria hidràulica, marítima i sanitària::Ports i costes
title_short Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
title_full Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
title_fullStr Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
title_full_unstemmed Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
title_sort Storm-induced risk assessment: evaluation of two tools at the regional and hotspot scale
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ferreira, O.
Viavattene, Christophe
Jiménez Quintana, José Antonio|||0000-0003-0900-4684
author Ferreira, O.
author_facet Ferreira, O.
Viavattene, Christophe
Jiménez Quintana, José Antonio|||0000-0003-0900-4684
author_role author
author2 Viavattene, Christophe
Jiménez Quintana, José Antonio|||0000-0003-0900-4684
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Coast changes--Spain
Climatic changes--Risk assessment
Coastal risk
Risk assessment tools
Storm impacts
Canvis costaners
Canvis climàtics -- Avaluació del risc
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Enginyeria hidràulica, marítima i sanitària::Ports i costes
topic Coast changes--Spain
Climatic changes--Risk assessment
Coastal risk
Risk assessment tools
Storm impacts
Canvis costaners
Canvis climàtics -- Avaluació del risc
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Enginyeria hidràulica, marítima i sanitària::Ports i costes
description Coastal zones are under increasing risk as coastal hazards increase due to climate change and the consequences of these also increase due to on-going economic development. To effectively deal with this increased risk requires the development of validated tools to identify coastal areas of higher risk and to evaluate the effectiveness of disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures. This paper analyses the performance in the application of two tools which have been developed in the RISC-KIT project: the regional Coastal Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF) and a hotspot early warning system coupled with a decision support system (EWS/DSS). The paper discusses the main achievements of the tools as well as improvements needed to support their further use by the coastal community. The CRAF, a tool to identify and rank hotspots of coastal risk at the regional scale, provides useful results for coastal managers and stakeholders. A change over time of the hotspots location and ranking can be analysed as a function of changes on coastal occupation or climate change. This tool is highly dependent on the quality of available information and a major constraint to its application is the relatively poor availability and accessibility of high-quality data, particularly in respect to social-economic indicators, and to lesser extent the physical environment. The EWS/DSS can be used as a warning system to predict potential impacts or to test the effectiveness of risk reduction measures at a given hotspot. This tool provides high resolution results, but needs validation against impact data, which are still scarce. The EWS/DSS tool can be improved by enhancing the vulnerability relationships and detailing the receptors in each area (increasing the detail, but also model simulations). The developed EWS/DSS can be adapted and extended to include a greater range of conditions (including climate change), receptors, hazards and impacts, enhancing disaster preparedness for effective risk reduction for further events or morphological conditions. Despite these concerns, the tools assessed in this paper proved to be valuable instruments for coastal management and risk reduction that can be adopted in a wide range of coastal areas.
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