NDLI: The impact of climate change on coastal geological disasters in southeastern China

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Author	Huang, Yu Cheng, Hualin
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Climate change is presently a major global challenge. As the world’s largest developing country, China is particularly vulnerable to global warming, especially in the rapidly developing coastal regions in the southeast of the country. This paper provides an overview of the impacts of climate change on the nature of geological disasters in the coastal regions of southeastern China. In the context of climate change, processes with the potential for causing geological disasters in this region, including sea-level rise, land subsidence, storm surges, and slope failures, which already have a substantial occurrence history, are all aggravated. All these processes have their own characteristics and relevance to climate change. Sea-level rise together with land subsidence reduces the function of dikes and flood prevention infrastructure in the study areas and makes the region more vulnerable to typhoons, storm surges, floods, and astronomical tidal effects. Storm surges have caused great losses in the study areas and also have contributed to increases in rainstorms. As a result, numerous rainfall-induced slope failures, characterized by focused time concentration, high frequencies, strong “burstiness,” and substantial damage, occur in the study areas. To prevent and mitigate such disasters that are accelerated by climate change, and to reduce losses, a series of measures is proposed that may help to achieve sustainable development in coastal southeastern China.
Starting Page	377
Ending Page	390
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0921030X
Journal	Natural Hazards
Volume Number	65
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730840
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-09-04
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Climate change Geological disasters Coastal regions of southeastern China Sea-level rise Prevention and mitigation measures Geophysics/Geodesy Environmental Management Civil Engineering Natural Hazards Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Hydrogeology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Atmospheric Science Water Science and Technology

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