African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates

MI Vousdoukas, J Clarke, R Ranasinghe… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
The African coast contains heritage sites of 'Outstanding Universal Value'that face
increasing risk from anthropogenic climate change. Here, we generated a database of 213 …

Assessment of the integrated coastal vulnerability index of Ghana toward future coastal infrastructure investment plans

B Charuka, DB Angnuureng, EK Brempong… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coastal vulnerability assessments are increasingly more important to investigate the
exposure of coastal areas to coastal hazards. In recent decades, climate-induced sea-level …

[HTML][HTML] Sea Level Rise in Europe: Impacts and consequences

R van de Wal, A Melet, D Bellafiore, P Camus… - State of the …, 2024 - sp.copernicus.org
​​​​​​​ Sea level rise has major impacts in Europe which vary from place to place and
in time, depending on the source of the impacts. Flooding, erosion, and saltwater intrusion …

Mapping spatial variability in shoreline change hotspots from satellite data; a case study in southeast Australia

TM Konlechner, DM Kennedy, JJ O'Grady… - Estuarine, coastal and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study demonstrates how a large-scale satellite-derived dataset can be used to
investigate statistically robust trends in shoreline position over a 31-year period from 1987 to …

Probability and severity of climate change threats to natural world heritage sites vary across site specifics and over time

MT Falk, E Hagsten - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
This study contributes a first comparison of current and potential threats to Natural World
Heritage Sites from climate change, as assessed by experts, when site and location …

Threat perception and adaptive capacity of natural world heritage site management

MT Falk, E Hagsten - Environmental management, 2023 - Springer
This study offers new insights into the largest threats to natural and mixed World Heritage
sites in developed countries as considered by their management. In addition to this, the …

State of the Vietnamese coast—Assessing three decades (1986 to 2021) of coastline dynamics using the landsat archive

R Lappe, T Ullmann, F Bachofer - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vietnam's 3260 km coastline is densely populated, experiences rapid urban and economic
growth, and faces at the same time a high risk of coastal hazards. Satellite archives provide …

ICSM CHC White Paper II: Impacts, vulnerability, and understanding risks of climate change for culture and heritage: Contribution of Impacts Group II to the …

NP Simpson, SA Orr, S Sabour, J Clarke, M Ishizawa… - 2022 - openarchive.icomos.org
Climate change poses an existential threat to multiple dimensions of culture and heritage.
Human induced climate change is already producing weather and climate extremes in every …

Which data assimilation method to use and when: unlocking the potential of observations in shoreline modelling

M Alvarez-Cuesta, A Toimil… - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Shoreline predictions are essential for coastal management. In this era of increasing
amounts of data from different sources, it is imperative to use observations to ensure the …

Bathymetric inversion and uncertainty estimation from synthetic surf-zone imagery with machine learning

AM Collins, KL Brodie, AS Bak, TJ Hesser… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Resolving surf-zone bathymetry from high-resolution imagery typically involves measuring
wave speeds and performing a physics-based inversion process using linear wave theory …