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1 December 2011 Coastline at Risk: Methods for Multi-Hazard Assessment
Mauro Soldati, Olivier Maquaire, Jose Luis Zezere, Daniela Piacentini, Candide Lissak
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SOLDATI, M., MAQUAIRE, O., ZEZERE, J. L., PIACENTINI, D and LISSAK, C, 2011. Coastline at Risk: Methods for Multi-Hazard Assessment. In: Micallef, A. (ed.), MCRR3–2010 Conference Proceedings, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 61, pp. 335–339. Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy, ISSN 0749-0208.

In recent years the interest for coastal hazards has increased significantly due to extreme events, sometimes related to climate change, that frequently occur in different parts of the world, often inducing high risk situations. This paper outlines the objectives, perspectives and preliminary results of a research project entitled “Coastline at risk: Methods for multi-hazard assessment” which aims at providing useful knowledge for the mitigation of coastal instability. The project is managed by the European Centre on Geomorphological Hazards (Centre Européen sur les Risques Geomorphologiques, CERG) and funded by the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement. Investigations are focused on coastal landslides in three different morpho-climatic European environments: Malta (Mediterranean coastline), Lower Normandy (Channel coastline) and Central Portugal (Atlantic coastline). The research outputs are expected to provide a significant opportunity for scientific discussion based on the comparison of data regarding instability situations in the context of multi-hazards assessment. The latter has until now dealt slightly with the coasts of Malta, Normandy and Portugal on which the investigations will be focused, despite significant risk issues present there, as evidenced from a series of accidents and damages recorded after landslide events. The aims of the project will be pursued through multidisciplinary investigations which foresee geomorphological and engineering-geological approaches. Integrated avant-garde research techniques, both traditional and innovative, will be applied with special reference to mapping, monitoring and modelling of coastal instability phenomena. The final objective is to propose a method for coastal multi-hazard assessment that can be used to face and manage coastal hazards.

©Coastal Education & Research Foundation 2011
Mauro Soldati, Olivier Maquaire, Jose Luis Zezere, Daniela Piacentini, and Candide Lissak "Coastline at Risk: Methods for Multi-Hazard Assessment," Journal of Coastal Research 2011(10061), 335-339, (1 December 2011). https://doi.org/10.2112/SI61-001.34
Published: 1 December 2011
KEYWORDS
coastline
France
hazard assessment
Malta
Portugal
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