Adaptation strategies for future coastal flooding: Performance evaluation of green and grey infrastructure in South Korea

• Published in: Journal of environmental management Vol. 334; p. 117495
• Main Authors: Park, Sangjin, Sohn, Wonmin, Piao, Yong, Lee, Dongkun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 15.05.2023
• Subjects: Acclimatization; Adaptive pathway; Cities; climate; Climate Change; coasts; environmental management; Flooding risk; Floods; geophysics; infrastructure; Mitigation strategy; Nature-based solution; neural networks; Probability; probability distribution; rain; Regional climate models; risk; sea level; South Korea; Urbanization; South Korea; Mitigation strategy; Climate change; Adaptive pathway; Regional climate models; Nature-based solution; Flooding risk

Climate change is contributing to an increasing frequency and intensity of floods in Korea. This study predicts areas with a high probability of flooding in coastal areas of South Korea owing to future climate change, which is likely to cause extreme rainfall and sea-level rise, using a spatiotempor...