How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment
Awareness of coastal landscapes vulnerability to both natural and man-made hazards induce to monitor their evolution, adaptation, resilience and to develop appropriate defence strategies. The necessity to transform the monitoring results into useful information is the motivation of the present paper...
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| author | Francesca De Serio Elvira Armenio Michele Mossa Antonio Felice Petrillo |
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| description | Awareness of coastal landscapes vulnerability to both natural and man-made hazards induce to monitor their evolution, adaptation, resilience and to develop appropriate defence strategies. The necessity to transform the monitoring results into useful information is the motivation of the present paper. Usually, to this scope, a coastal vulnerability index is deduced, by assigning ranking values to the different parameters governing the coastal processes. The principal limitation of this procedure is the individual discretion used in ranking. Moreover, physical parameters are generally considered, omitting socio-economic factors. The aim of the present study is to complement a geographical information system (GIS) with an analytical hierarchical process (AHP), thus allowing an objective prioritization of the key parameters. Furthermore, in the present case, socio-economic parameters have been added to physical ones. Employing them jointly, an integrated coastal vulnerability index (ICVI) has been estimated and its effectiveness has been investigated. To show how it works, the proposed method has been applied to a portion of the Adriatic coastline, along the Apulian region in southern Italy. It has permitted to identify and prioritize the most vulnerable areas, revealing its efficacy as a potential tool to support coastal planning and management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee14c6ccb4714ec6bf770ebb2330accb2022-12-22T02:53:05ZengMDPI AGGeosciences2076-32632018-11-0181141510.3390/geosciences8110415geosciences8110415How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability AssessmentFrancesca De Serio0Elvira Armenio1Michele Mossa2Antonio Felice Petrillo3Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy), 70125 Bari BA, ItalyDepartment of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy), 70125 Bari BA, ItalyDepartment of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy), 70125 Bari BA, ItalyDepartment of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy), 70125 Bari BA, ItalyAwareness of coastal landscapes vulnerability to both natural and man-made hazards induce to monitor their evolution, adaptation, resilience and to develop appropriate defence strategies. The necessity to transform the monitoring results into useful information is the motivation of the present paper. Usually, to this scope, a coastal vulnerability index is deduced, by assigning ranking values to the different parameters governing the coastal processes. The principal limitation of this procedure is the individual discretion used in ranking. Moreover, physical parameters are generally considered, omitting socio-economic factors. The aim of the present study is to complement a geographical information system (GIS) with an analytical hierarchical process (AHP), thus allowing an objective prioritization of the key parameters. Furthermore, in the present case, socio-economic parameters have been added to physical ones. Employing them jointly, an integrated coastal vulnerability index (ICVI) has been estimated and its effectiveness has been investigated. To show how it works, the proposed method has been applied to a portion of the Adriatic coastline, along the Apulian region in southern Italy. It has permitted to identify and prioritize the most vulnerable areas, revealing its efficacy as a potential tool to support coastal planning and management.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/11/415coastal morphodynamicscoastal vulnerability indexgeographic information systems (GIS)analytical hierarchical process (AHP) |
| spellingShingle | Francesca De Serio Elvira Armenio Michele Mossa Antonio Felice Petrillo How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Geosciences coastal morphodynamics coastal vulnerability index geographic information systems (GIS) analytical hierarchical process (AHP) |
| title | How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment |
| title_full | How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment |
| title_fullStr | How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment |
| title_short | How to Define Priorities in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment |
| title_sort | how to define priorities in coastal vulnerability assessment |
| topic | coastal morphodynamics coastal vulnerability index geographic information systems (GIS) analytical hierarchical process (AHP) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/11/415 |
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