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A Biophysical and Socioeconomic Review of the Volta Delta, Ghana

scholarly article

A High‐End Estimate of Sea Level Rise for Practitioners

article published in 2022

A Methodology for Modeling Coastal Space for Global Assessment

article

A New Global Coastal Database for Impact and Vulnerability Analysis to Sea-Level Rise

article

A Quantified System-of-Systems Modeling Framework for Robust National Infrastructure Planning

A Sustainable Future Supply of Fluvial Sediment for the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta

A comparison of the 31 January–1 February 1953 and 5–6 December 2013 coastal flood events around the UK

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A comparison of the main methods for estimating probabilities of extreme still water levels

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A comparison of two global datasets of extreme sea levels and resulting flood exposure

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A first look at the influence of anthropogenic climate change on the future delivery of fluvial sediment to the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta

scientific article

A framework for identifying and selecting long term adaptation policy directions for deltas

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

A global analysis of erosion of sandy beaches and sea-level rise: An application of DIVA

article

A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure

scientific article published on 08 March 2021

A global assessment of the effects of climate policy on the impacts of climate change

scholarly article by Nigel Arnell et al published 13 January 2013 in Nature Climate Change

A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes

article

A high-end estimate of sea-level rise for practitioners

A reflection on collaborative adaptation research in Africa and Asia

article

A review of potential physical impacts on harbours in the Mediterranean Sea under climate change

article

A systems-based assessment of Palestine's current and future infrastructure requirements

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

A user-friendly database of coastal flooding in the United Kingdom from 1915-2014.

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Accurately Determining the Risks of Rising Sea Level

Adaptation technologies for coastal erosion and flooding: a review

article

Adaptation to Five Metres of Sea Level Rise

article

Adapting ports to sea-level rise: empirical lessons based on land subsidence in Indonesia and Japan

scientific article

Adapting to Shifting Tides: Science and the Policy Implications of Coastal Change

Adapting to sea‐level rise: Relative sea‐level trends to 2100 for the United States

scholarly article by Robert J. Nicholls & Stephen P. Leatherman published January 1996 in Coastal Management

Adapting to the inevitable

scientific article published in Nature

Addressing the challenges of climate change risks and adaptation in coastal areas: A review

scholarly article by Alexandra Toimil et al published March 2020 in Coastal Engineering

Adjusting Mitigation Pathways to Stabilize Climate at 1.5°C and 2.0°C Rise in Global Temperatures to Year 2300

article

Agricultural livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh under climate and environmental change--a model framework

scientific article

An Integrated Approach Providing Scientific and Policy-Relevant Insights for South-West Bangladesh

An OpenMI-based combined model for alongshore sediment transport and shoreline change

An assessment of the optimum timing of coastal flood adaptation given sea-level rise using real options analysis

An improved database of coastal flooding in the United Kingdom from 1915 to 2016.

scientific article

Analysis of global impacts of sea-level rise: a case study of flooding

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Application of an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) to for strategic scale delta assessment of socio-ecological risk: Supporting Policy in Coastal Bangladesh

scientific article

Applying the global RCP-SSP-SPA scenario framework at sub-national scale: A multi-scale and participatory scenario approach.

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Assessing changes in extreme sea levels: Application to the English Channel, 1900–2006

article

Assessing risk of and adaptation to sea-level rise in the European Union: an application of DIVA

article

Assessing the Long-Term Performance of Cross-Sectoral Strategies for National Infrastructure

article

Assessing the characteristics and drivers of compound flooding events around the UK coast

scientific article

Assessing the characteristics and drivers of compound flooding events around the UK coast

article published in 2019

Author Correction: A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Benefits of Climate-Change Mitigation for Reducing the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise in G-20 Countries

scientific article

Benefits of mitigation of climate change for coastal areas

article

Benefits of subsidence control for coastal flooding in China

scientific article published in 2022

Beyond significant wave height: A new approach for validating spectral wave models

scholarly article by Edgar Peter Dabbi et al published June 2015 in Coastal Engineering

Broad-Scale Analysis of Morphological and Climate Impacts on Coastal Flood Risk

Broad-scale modelling of coastal wetlands: what is required?

article

Buenos Aires and Kyoto targets do little to reduce climate change impacts

scholarly article by Martin Parry et al published November 1998 in Global Environmental Change

Causal Loop Analysis of coastal geomorphological systems

article

Changing extreme sea levels along European coasts

article

Choices: Future Trade-Offs and Plausible Pathways

Climate and socio-economic scenarios for global-scale climate change impacts assessments: characterising the SRES storylines

scholarly article by Nigel Arnell et al published April 2004 in Global Environmental Change

Climate change and coastal management on Europe's coast

article

Climate change and coastal vulnerability assessment: scenarios for integrated assessment

article

Coastal Flooding in the Solent: An Integrated Analysis of Defences and Inundation

article

Coastal Modelling Environment version 1.0: a framework for integrating landform-specific component models in order to simulate decadal to centennial morphological changes on complex coasts

scientific article published in 2017

Coastal Resilience and Planning for an Uncertain Future: An Introduction

article

Coastal Wetland Habitats: Future Challenges and Potential Solutions

article

Coastal and Estuarine Retreat: A Comparison of the Application of Managed Realignment in England and Germany

article

Coastal flood analysis and visualisation for a small town

scholarly article by Matthew P. Wadey published in November 2015

Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

scientific article

Coastal flood risks in China through the 21st century - An application of DIVA

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Coastal flooding and wetland loss in the 21st century: changes under the SRES climate and socio-economic scenarios

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Coastal flooding in the Maldives: an assessment of historic events and their implications

Coastal megacities and climate change

article

Coastal retreat and/or advance adjacent to defences in England and Wales

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CoastalME version 1.0: a Coastal Modelling Environment for simulating decadal to centennial morphological changes

Coastline Degradation as an Indicator of Global Change

Conceptualising and mapping coupled estuary, coast and inner shelf sediment systems

article

Contemporary migration intentions in the Maldives: the role of environmental and other factors

Contrasting development trajectories for coastal Bangladesh to the end of century

Coping with Coastal Change

article

Corrigendum to "Modelling Impacts of Climate Change and Socio-Economic Change on the Ganga, Brahmaputra, Meghna, Hooghly and Mahanadi River Systems in India and Bangladesh" [Stoten 636 (2018) 1362-1372]

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Costs of Adapting Coastal Defences to Sea-Level Rise— New Estimates and Their Implications

article

Creating an ensemble of future strategies for national infrastructure provision

Delta Challenges and Trade-Offs from the Holocene to the Anthropocene

Demand for Ports to 2050: Climate Policy, Growing Trade and the Impacts of Sea‐Level Rise

Developing a Holistic Approach to Assessing and Managing Coastal Flood Risk

Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement

Dynamic modeling of the Ganga river system: impacts of future climate and socio-economic change on flows and nitrogen fluxes in India and Bangladesh

scientific article

Dynamic simulation and visualisation of coastal erosion

Economic impacts of climate change in Europe: sea-level rise

article

Ecosystem Services Linked to Livelihoods and Well-Being in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta

scholarly article published 2018

Ecosystem Services, Well-Being and Deltas: Current Knowledge and Understanding

scholarly article published 2018

Enhancing resilience to coastal flooding from severe storms in the USA: international lessons

article by Darren M. Lumbroso et al published 9 August 2017 in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Erratum to: Spatial variations of sea-level rise and impacts: An application of DIVA

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Evaluating Broadscale Morphological Change in the Coastal Zone Using a Logic-Based Behavioural Systems Approach

article

Evaluation of depth of closure using data from Duck, NC, USA

article

Exploring Data-Related Uncertainties in Analyses of Land Area and Population in the “Low-Elevation Coastal Zone” (LECZ)

article

Exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes: population and asset exposure to coastal flooding in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

article

Five critical questions of scale for the coastal zone

scientific article published in 2012

Flood hazard and damage assessment in the Ebro Delta (NW Mediterranean) to relative sea level rise

article

Floods and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta

article

Fluvial Sediment Supply and Relative Sea-Level Rise

Future challenges of coastal landfills exacerbated by sea level rise

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea-level rise and coastal flooding--a global assessment

scientific article

Future flood losses in major coastal cities

article

Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise

scientific article published in Nature

GIS Platforms for Managing, Accessing and Integrating Model Results: The Tyndall Coastal Simulator Experience

Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh and India: A Transnational Mega-Delta

Generic adaptation pathways for coastal archetypes under uncertain sea-level rise

scientific article published in 2019

Global coastal wetland change under sea-level rise and related stresses: The DIVA Wetland Change Model

article

Global costs of protecting against sea-level rise at 1.5 to 4.0 °C

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Global estimates of the impact of a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet: an application of FUND

article

Global sea-level rise and coastal vulnerability

Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact

High-frequency sea level variations and implications for coastal flooding: A case study of the Solent, UK

article

Holocene evolution of the gravel coastline of East Sussex: discussion

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Hotspots of Present and Future Risk Within Deltas: Hazards, Exposure and Vulnerability

Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change

scientific article

Impact of sea-level rise on the tourist-carrying capacity of Catalan beaches

scientific article

Impacts and responses to sea-level rise: a global analysis of the SRES scenarios over the twenty-first century

scientific article

Impacts of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Case Study of Mombasa, Kenya

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Impacts of and Responses to Sea-Level Rise

article

Impacts of climate change and socio-economic scenarios on flow and water quality of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna (GBM) river systems: low flow and flood statistics.

scientific article

Impacts of natural and human drivers on the multi-decadal morphological evolution of tidally-influenced deltas

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

Impacts of sea-level rise-induced erosion on the Catalan coast

Implications of Sea-Level Rise for Europe's Coasts: An Introduction

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Implications of sea-level rise and extreme events around Europe: a review of coastal energy infrastructure

article

Improved estimates of coastal population and exposure to hazards released

article

Indirect impacts of coastal climate change and sea-level rise: the UK example

article

Integrated Coastal Assessment: The Way Forward

Integrating Estuarine, Coastal and Inner Shelf Sediment Systems in a Common Conceptual Framework as a Basis for Participatory Shoreline Management

article

Integrating Science and Policy Through Stakeholder-Engaged Scenarios

Integrating new sea‐level scenarios into coastal risk and adaptation assessments: An ongoing process

scientific article published in 2021

Integrative Analysis Applying the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model in South-West Coastal Bangladesh

Integrative Analysis for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh

International Opportunities for Broad Scale Coastal Simulation

Intertidal mudflat and saltmarsh conservation and sustainable use in the UK: a review

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

Introduction

Island abandonment and sea-level rise: An historical analog from the Chesapeake Bay, USA

article

Land raising as a solution to sea‐level rise: An analysis of coastal flooding on an artificial island in the Maldives

Large-Scale Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Adaptation Research: Challenges and Insights

scientific article published on 02 May 2018

Making SDGs Work for Climate Change Hotspots

article

Managing coastal flood risk to residential properties in England: integrating spatial planning, engineering and insurance

article published in 2021

Mean sea level trends around the English Channel over the 20th century and their wider context

article

Measurements of the semi-diurnal drag coefficient over sand waves

article

Meeting User Needs for Sea Level Rise Information: A Decision Analysis Perspective

scientific article

Modeling daily soil salinity dynamics in response to agricultural and environmental changes in coastal Bangladesh

article

Modeling future flows of the Volta River system: Impacts of climate change and socio-economic changes

scientific article published on 14 May 2018

Modelling household well-being and poverty trajectories: An application to coastal Bangladesh

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

Modelling impacts of climate change and socio-economic change on the Ganga, Brahmaputra, Meghna, Hooghly and Mahanadi river systems in India and Bangladesh

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Modelling the increased frequency of extreme sea levels in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta due to sea level rise and other effects of climate change.

scientific article

Modelling the influences of climate change-associated sea-level rise and socioeconomic development on future storm surge mortality

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Multi-decadal shoreline change in coastal natural world heritage sites – a global assessment

scientific article published on 2 October 2020

No room for complacency over climate

journal article; published in Nature, 1998-12

Physical and economic consequences of climate change in Europe

scientific article

Planning for the Impacts of Sea Level Rise

article

Population dynamics, delta vulnerability and environmental change: comparison of the Mekong, Ganges-Brahmaputra and Amazon delta regions

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Potential Implications of Accelerated Sea-Level Rise for Turkey

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Potential Implications of Sea-Level Rise for Great Britain

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Potential Trade-Offs between the Sustainable Development Goals in Coastal Bangladesh

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Potential social-ecological development of coastal Bangladesh through the 21st century

scientific article

Presence of Connecting Channels in the Western Scheldt Estuary

Present and Future Fluvial, Tidal and Storm Surge Flooding in Coastal Bangladesh

scholarly article published 2018

Projected changes in area of the Sundarban mangrove forest in Bangladesh due to SLR by 2100

article

Projections of declining fluvial sediment delivery to major deltas worldwide in response to climate change and anthropogenic stress

scientific article

Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Projections of historical and 21st century fluvial sediment delivery to the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Mahanadi, and Volta deltas

Proportionate adaptation

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Public participation, coastal management and climate change adaptation

scholarly article published 27 September 2017

Quantifying Land and People Exposed to Sea-Level Rise with No Mitigation and 1.5°C and 2.0°C Rise in Global Temperatures to Year 2300

Recent sediment flux to the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta system

Reconstructing coastal flood occurrence combining sea level and media sources: a case study of the Solent, UK since 1935

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Regional analysis of multivariate compound coastal flooding potential around Europe and environs: sensitivity analysis and spatial patterns

scientific article

Regional analysis of multivariate compound flooding potential: sensitivity analysis and spatial patterns

scientific article

Report On Reports: Adaptation to Climate Change: Assessing the Costs

scholarly article by Martin Parry et al published December 2009 in Environment

Representing and Modelling Coastal Systems Over a Regional Scale for Coastal Management

scientific article published in January 2016

Research, policy and practice for the conservation and sustainable use of intertidal mudflats and saltmarshes in the Solent from 1800 to 2016

scholarly article by Natalie M. Foster et al published April 2014 in Environmental Science and Policy

Resilience to natural hazards: How useful is this concept?

article

Rising sea levels in the English Channel 1900 to 2100

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Scenarios of Future Built Environment for Coastal Risk Assessment of Climate Change Using a GIS-Based Multicriteria Analysis

scholarly article by Mustafa Mokrech et al published February 2012 in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Sea Level Change and Coastal Climate Services: The Way Forward

Sea-Level Rise Impacts and Responses: A Global Perspective

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Sea-Level Rise and Variability: Synthesis and Outlook for the Future

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Sea-level rise and its impact on coastal zones

scientific article

Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a 'beyond 4°C world' in the twenty-first century

scientific article

Sea-level rise impacts on Africa and the effects of mitigation and adaptation: an application of DIVA

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Sea-level rise scenarios and coastal risk management

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Sea-level rise vulnerability in the countries of the Coral Triangle

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Sea-level scenarios for evaluating coastal impacts

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Shifting perspectives on coastal impacts and adaptation

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Shoreline response of eroding soft cliffs due to hard defences

Simplified two-dimensional numerical modelling of coastal flooding and example applications

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Simulating decadal coastal morphodynamics

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Simulating mesoscale coastal evolution for decadal coastal management: A new framework integrating multiple, complementary modelling approaches

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Sinking deltas due to human activities

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Spatial and temporal analysis of extreme sea level and storm surge events around the coastline of the UK

scientific article published on 06 December 2016

Spatial variations of sea-level rise and impacts: An application of DIVA

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Stabilization of global temperature at 1.5°C and 2.0°C: implications for coastal areas

scientific article published in May 2018

Status of global coastal adaptation

Storm-driven variability of the beach-nearshore profile at Duck, North Carolina, USA, 1981–1991

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Subsidence and human influences in mega deltas: The case of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna.

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Assessing the characteristics and drivers of compound flooding events around the UK coast"

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Regional analysis of multivariate compound flooding potential: sensitivity analysis and spatial patterns"

scientific article

Sustainable Deltas in the Anthropocene

scientific article

Sustainable Deltas in the Anthropocene

Sustainable Development Goals Offer New Opportunities for Tropical Delta Regions

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Synergies and trade-offs for the SDGs in a deltaic socio-ecological system: Development of an Integrated Assessment Model

Systems-of-systems analysis of national infrastructure

THE TYNDALL COASTAL SIMULATOR AND INTERFACE

THESEUS decision support system for coastal risk management

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Targeting adaptation to safeguard sustainable development against climate-change impacts

scientific article

Targeting climate adaptation to safeguard and advance the Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published in 2022

The Development of a Framework for the Integrated Assessment of SDG Trade-Offs in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta system: biophysical models to support analysis of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

The SPR systems model as a conceptual foundation for rapid integrated risk appraisals: Lessons from Europe

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The Tyndall coastal simulator

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The UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience

The ability of societies to adapt to twenty-first-century sea-level rise

research work

The economic impact of substantial sea-level rise

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The effect of coastal defences on cliff top retreat along the Holderness coastline

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The effects of adaptation and mitigation on coastal flood impacts during the 21st century. An application of the DIVA and IMAGE models

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The evolving landscape of sea-level rise science from 1990 to 2021

The impacts of climate change across the globe: A multi-sectoral assessment

scholarly article by Nigel Arnell et al published 11 November 2014 in Climatic Change

The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions

The physical sustainability of the coastal zone of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta under climatic and anthropogenic stresses

scientific article

Toward Sustainable Decision Making

Towards Successful Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise along Europe's Coasts

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Trends in reported flooding in the UK: 1884–2013

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Understanding a coastal flood event: the 10th March 2008 storm surge event in the Solent, UK

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Understanding extreme sea levels for broad-scale coastal impact and adaptation analysis.

scientific article

Urban Managed Realignment: Application to the Thames Estuary, London

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Variability of shore and shoreline evolution

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Water-level attenuation in broad-scale assessments of exposure to coastal flooding: a sensitivity analysis

Water-level attenuation in broad-scale assessments of exposure to coastal flooding: a sensitivity analysis

Water-level attenuation in global-scale assessments of exposure to coastal flooding: a sensitivity analysis

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What are the implications of sea-level rise for a 1.5, 2 and 3 °C rise in global mean temperatures in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and other vulnerable deltas?

scholarly article