Modelling coastal vulnerability [electronic resource] : design and evaluation of a vulnerability model for tropical storms and floods / door Marcel Marchand.

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ISBN:

9781607505211

9781282600973

Title:

Modelling coastal vulnerability [electronic resource] : design and evaluation of a vulnerability model for tropical storms and floods / door Marcel Marchand.

Author:

Marchand, M. (Marcel)

Personal Author:

Marchand, M. (Marcel)

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 247 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Series:

Deltares select series, 05

Contents:

Title page; Preface; Contents; Summary; Samenvatting; Introduction; Coastal hazards, damage and human suffering; Coastal vulnerability and disaster management; The need for new knowledge and tools; The differential nature of vulnerability; Research objective; Research questions; The research strategy; Structure of the thesis; Part 1: Describing the Experience; Design and application of an Expert Decision Support System (EDSS) for coastal Andhra Pradesh; Part 2: Literature Study; Defining vulnerability; Choices in integrated modelling; Policy Analysis: linking context with content.

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Subject Term:

Coast changes -- Mathematical models.

Coastal zone management.

Added Corporate Author:

IOS Press.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

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Modelling Coastal Vulnerability focuses on the vulnerability of societies in low lying coastal and deltaic environments to tropical cyclonic storms and floods. Models that explore vulnerability under various planned and unplanned conditions hardly exist. Within the Andhra Pradesh Cyclone Hazard Mitigation Project an Expert Decision Support System (EDSS) was designed and implemented linking coastal vulnerability to integrated coastal zone management (ICZM). This model development provided unique material ad experiences for the research presented here. The interpretation and critical inquiry of the model has led to new knowledge on the design of such a model as well as on the use of its results in reducing vulnerability through planning. Excerpted from Modelling Coastal Vulnerability: Design and Evaluation of a Vulnerability Model for Tropical Storms and Floods by M. Marchand All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.