Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world
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Abstract
Deltas are highly sensitive to increasing risks arising from local human activities, land subsidence, regional water management, global sea-level rise, and climate extremes. We quantified changing flood risk due to extreme events using an integrated set of global environmental, geophysical, and social indicators. Although risks are distributed across all levels of economic development, wealthy countries effectively limit their present-day threat by gross domestic product-enabled infrastructure and coastal defense investments. In an energy-constrained future, such protections will probably prove to be unsustainable, raising relative risks by four to eight times in the Mississippi and Rhine deltas and by one-and-a-half to four times in the Chao Phraya and Yangtze deltas. The current emphasis on short-term solutions for the world's deltas will greatly constrain options for designing sustainable solutions in the long term.
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The record
- Venue
- Science
- Topic
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Field
- Environmental Science
- Canadian institutions
- —
- Funders
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaSimons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California BerkeleyAlfred P. Sloan FoundationNational Science FoundationClimate ExtremesNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationAbu Dhabi Education Council
- Keywords
- DeltaUrbanizationGross domestic productSustainabilityGross Regional ProductGeographyVulnerability (computing)PopulationPopulation growthNatural resource economicsGlobeEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental protectionEnvironmental planningEconomic growthEcologyEnvironmental scienceEconomicsBiology
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
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