Uncertainty on coastal flood risk calculations, and how to deal with it in coastal management: case of the Belgian coastal zone
A coastal flood risk calculation estimates the damage by coastal flooding for a certain time horizon. Fivedifferent sources of uncertainty can be distinguished: unpredictability of the weather; uncertainty on theextreme value probability distribution of storm surges; unknown future values of economic growth rate,population growth rate, sea level rise rate and discount rate; limited knowledge of the behaviour of thecoastal system; limited amount of measurements about the state of the coastal system. From a preliminaryanalysis for the Belgian coastal zone it is clear that the combined effect of... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2007 |
Schlagwörter: | Coastal zone management / Flooding / Risks / ANE / Belgium / Belgian Coast |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28930540 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/141414.pdf |