Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk

• Main Author: Roshanka Ranasinghe (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Ruben Jongejan (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Environmental economics; Coastal flooding; Climate change; Coast; Beach; Coastal erosion; Estuary; Coastal Risk
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The combination of coastal climate change impacts and their effects on the ever-increasing human utilization of the coastal zone will invariably result in increasing coastal risk in the coming decades. However, while economic damage (potential consequence) caused by climate change-driven coastal inu...