Yu-Chen Lin and Tzong-Yeang Lee
Assessment of Vulnerability and Risk of Taijiang Coastal Areas to Climatic Changes
437 - 445
2012
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International Journal of Geological and Environmental Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6764
https://publications.waset.org/vol/67
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
This study aims to assess the vulnerability and risk of
the coastal areas of Taijiang to abnormal oceanographic phenomena.
In addition, this study aims to investigate and collect data regarding
the disaster losses, land utilization, and other social, economic, and
environmental issues in these coastal areas to construct a coastal
vulnerability and risk map based on the obtained climatechange risk
assessment results. Considering the indexes of the three coastal
vulnerability dimensions, namely, manmade facilities, environmental
geography, and social economy, this study adopted the equal
weighting process and Analytic Hierarchy Process to analyze the
vulnerability of these coastal areas to disasters caused by climatic
changes. Among the areas with high coastal vulnerability to climatic
changes, three towns had the highest coastal vulnerability and four had
the highest relative vulnerability. Areas with lower disaster risks were
found to be increasingly vulnerable to disasters caused by climatic
changes as time progresses.
Open Science Index 67, 2012