Quantitative assessment of the environmental risk due to climate change-driven coastline recession: A case study in Trincomalee coastal area, Sri Lanka

Climate change may exacerbate the environmental damage due to coastal hazards and increase associated risks. This would result in degradation of coastal wetlands, especially in developing countries due to the lack of sufficient resilience to coastal hazards such as inundation and coastal erosion. En...

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Main Authors: Seyedabdolhossein Mehvar, Ali Dastgheib, Janaka Bamunawala, Mangala Wickramanayake, Roshanka Ranasinghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Climate Risk Management
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096318302110