Advanced methods in sea level rise vulnerability assessment

• Other Authors: Romah, Thomas.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Florida Atlantic University
• Subjects: Sea level > Environmental aspects; Coastal zone management; Sea level > Climactic factors; Climate change mitigation; Climatic changes > Risk management
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358965

Increasing sea levels have the potential to place important portions of the infrastructure we rely on every day at risk. The transportation infrastructure relies on roads, airports, and seaports to move people, services, and goods around in an ever connected global economy. Any disturbances of the transportation modes have reverberating effects throughout the entire economic spectrum. The effects include delays, alterations of routes, and possible changes in the origin and destinations of services and goods. The purpose of this project is to develop an improved methodology for a sea level rise scenario vulnerability assessment model. This new model uses the groundwater elevation as a limiting factor for soil storage capacity in determining previously underestimated areas of vulnerability. The hope is that early identification of vulnerability will allow planners and government officials an opportunity to identify and either remediate or create alternative solutions for vulnerable land areas before high consequence impacts are felt. === by Thomas Romah. === Thesis (M.S.C.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. === Includes bibliography. === Mode of access: World Wide Web. === System requirements: Adobe Reader.