dc.contributor.author | Coelho, Carlos | |
dc.contributor.author | Narra, Pedro | |
dc.contributor.author | Marinho, Bárbara | |
dc.contributor.author | Lima, Márcia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-31T19:57:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-31T19:57:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Coelho, C., Narra, P.; Marinho, B. and Lima, M. (2020) Coastal Management Software to Support the Decision-Makers to Mitigate Coastal Erosion. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8:37, 22pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8010037 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.oceanbestpractices.org/handle/11329/1908 | |
dc.description.abstract | There are no sequential and integrated approaches that include the steps needed to perform
an adequate management and planning of the coastal zones to mitigate coastal erosion problems
and climate change effects. Important numerical model packs are available for users, but often
looking deeply to the physical processes, demanding big computational efforts and focusing on
specific problems. Thus, it is important to provide adequate tools to the decision-makers, which
can be easily interpreted by populations, promoting discussions of optimal intervention scenarios
in medium to long-term horizons. COMASO (coastal management software) intends to fill this
gap, presenting a group of tools that can be applied in standalone mode, or in a sequential order.
The first tool should map the coastal erosion vulnerability and risk, also including the climate change
e ects, defining a hierarchy of priorities where coastal defense interventions should be performed, or
limiting/constraining some land uses or activities. In the locations identified as priorities, a more
detailed analysis should consider the application of shoreline and cross-shore evolution models
(second tool), allowing discussing intervention scenarios, in medium to long-term horizons. After the
defined scenarios, the design of the intervention should be discussed, both in case of being a hard
coastal structure or an artificial nourishment (third type of tools). Finally, a cost-benefit assessment
tool should optimize the decisions, forecasting costs and benefits for each di erent scenario, through
definition of economic values to the interventions and to the land/services/ecosystems, weighting
all the environmental, cultural, social and historical aspects. It is considered that COMASO tools
can help giving answers to the major problems of the coastal planning and management entities,
integrating transversal knowledge in risk assessment, physical processes, engineering and economic
evaluations. The integrated coastal zone management needs these tools to ensure sustainable coastal
zones, mitigating erosion and climate change effects. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject.other | Risk assessment | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Coastal zone management | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Coastal structures | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cost benefit assessment | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Artificial nourishments | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Shoreline evolution | en_US |
dc.title | Coastal Management Software to Support the Decision-Makers to Mitigate Coastal Erosion. | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Contribution | en_US |
dc.description.refereed | Refereed | en_US |
dc.format.pagerange | 22pp. | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/jmse8010037 | |
dc.subject.parameterDiscipline | Sedimentation and erosion processes | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.title | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 8 | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | Article 37 | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | 14.5 | en_US |
dc.description.eov | N/A | en_US |
dc.description.adoption | Organisational | en_US |
dc.description.methodologyType | Method | en_US |
dc.description.methodologyType | Reports with methodological relevance | en_US |
obps.contact.contactname | Carlo Coelho | |
obps.contact.contactemail | ccoelho@ua.pt | |
obps.resourceurl.publisher | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/1/37?type=check_update&version=2 | |