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Relative importance of climate versus socio-environmental development changes to 2050 in rural coastal Bangladesh-a system analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesReg Environ Change
Lázár AN   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hydrostatic sea-level rise inundation impacts on ahu and harbors of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Paoa N   +6 more
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Coastal Flooding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
More than half of the world population lives in the coastal zone. As a result, coastal flooding is a major threat to human society. A flood from sea may be caused by a heavy storm (storm surge), a high tide, a tsunami, or a combination of them. Knowledge in costal processes and sea wave models enables engineers to design and manage effective costal ...
null Dawei Han
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Coastal modelling for flood defence

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2002
This paper reviews practices and trends in hydrodynamic and statistical analyses and modelling in the Netherlands with regard to the risk of coastal flooding. We restrict ourselves to the physical phenomena of tides, storm surges and wind waves. We first give a brief outline of established policy in the Netherlands regarding accepted levels of risk of ...
Jurjen A, Battjes, Herman, Gerritsen
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Coastal flooding

2017
MCCIP Science Review 2017, 108 ...
Haigh, I.D., Nicholls, R.J.
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