Relative Sea-Level Changes and their Impact on Coastal Zones

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: 2100; 3D model; accretion; acqua alta; adaptation costs; atmospheric variability; Baltic Sea; bio-indicators; boulders; Campi Flegrei; climate change; coastal barrier; coastal changes; coastal dynamics; coastal erosion; coastal lagoon; coastal morphometry; coastal plains; coastal restoration; continuous backstepping pattern; diversion; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Environmental economics; environmental planning; erosion; estuary; flow; geoarchaeology; geochronology; geomorphological coastal changes; Holocene; incised valley; integrated 3D remote sensing surveys; interannual variations; investment decision; late Quaternary environments; Louisiana; marine submersion; Medicane; Mediterranean Sea; Mississippi River Delta; n/a; natural variability; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; relative sea level changes; relative sea-level rise; Research and information: general; salinity; sapropel S1; sea level; sea level change; sea storm effects; sea-level changes; sea-level rise; sediment; sedimentary dynamics; southern Italy; Spain and Portugal coastal cities; stochastic model; submersion; tide gauges; Tyrrhenian sea; UAV; uncertainty; vertical ground movements; vertical land motion; Volturno plain; waves; well log correlation; western Ligurian sea; wetland loss

In the last few centuries, the study of sea-level changes along the world's shores has been a primary scientific focus in analyses of climate change, but also for scientists exploring past landscape evolution, geomorphological processes, human impacts, and system responses. The relative variati...