Conceptual assessment and synthesis of methodological tools to determine coastal sensitivity to erosion and flooding
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https://doi.org/10.11606/eISSN.2236-2878.rdg.2023.197486Keywords:
Vulnerability, Coastal hazards, Physical variablesAbstract
Identification of sensitive coastal zone to sea level rise is necessary for more effective coastal zone management to increase resilience and help reduce impacts. However, coastal systems diversity and regional differences in relative sea level rise conduct to not uniform response of coastal erosion and flooding across the globe. For this reason, coastal sensitivity assessment should be the starting point for vulnerability assessment. However, methodological challenges for this assessment arise from this difficult task of evaluating the dynamics of coastal ecosystems. Also, conceptual inconsistencies around the term vulnerability can generate methodological misunderstandings and distracted use of certain variables can compromise coastal sensitivity indices. This paper proposes to contribute with a conceptual and methodological basis for researchers who will start in coastal sensitivity mapping journey; beside present a synthesis of the main vulnerability assessment tools and discuss the meaning of the most used physical variables to classify coastal sensitivity to the risks of coastal erosion and flooding. Regardless of the methodological approach adopted, researchers must be aware of the limitations of the tool and the scale of understanding, where the choice of variables is also a matter of scale, as the detailing of morphological features and processes is necessary at a local scale, ensuring thus further refinement of coastal sensitivity.
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