A review of coastal community vulnerabilities toward resilience benefits from disaster reduction measures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16860859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lesley Ewing (University of Southern California), Reinhard E Flick (California Department of Parks and Recreation), Costas E Synolakis (0000-0003-0140-5379, University of Southern California) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 222-232 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Hazards (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-0059 • E-ISSN: 1747-7891 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3763/ehaz.2010.0050 |
| OpenAlex | W2023647235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
The coast has always been an area of significant hazards. In situations of community self-sufficiency, consequences of coastal hazards might be isolated to regions directly affected by the hazard. But, in the current global economy, fewer and fewer communities are isolated; damage to one location frequently has consequences around the globe and coastal community resilience can have broad-reaching benefits. Hazard responses for the built coastal environment have typically been resistance: constructing stronger buildings, enhancing natural barriers or creating artificial barriers. These approaches to hazard reduction through coastal engineering and shoreline defence efforts have been crucial to sustained coastal development. However, as coastal forces continue or magnify and resources become scarcer, resistance alone may be less effective or even unsustainable, and interest in resilience has grown. Resilience is a community's ability either to absorb destructive forces without loss of service or function, or to recover quickly from disasters. Community resilience encompasses multiple elements, ranging from governance to structural design, risk knowledge, prevention, warning systems and recovery. This paper focuses on hazards of coastal communities, and provides a review of some recent engineering efforts to improve the resilience elements of risk knowledge and disaster warnings for coastal disaster reduction
Business · Climate change · Coastal hazards · Community resilience · Disaster risk reduction · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Hazard · Natural hazard · Sea level rise · Coastal and Marine Dynamics · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |