Lasse Peltonen | 2005-01-01
Successful adaptation to climate change and sea-level rise depends greatly on coping capacity or adaptive capacity, that is, the ability of an affected (human or natural) system, region, or community to cope with or adapt to the impacts and risks of climate change induced sea-level rise...
Johannes Klein | 2005-01-01
To state a level of vulnerability for an assessed area, a clear definition of the meaning of vulnerability is needed. In a broader sense vulnerability is defined as a set of conditions and processes resulting from physical, social, economical and environmental factors, which determine the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards. ..
Hartmut Rudolphi | 2005-01-01
Affected areas of concern on Usedom Island are the low-lying barriers. An area of 102 km² will be at risk at a sea level rise of 80 cm; these represent approximatly 28 % of the island...
Johannes Klein | 2005-01-01
The “High Case” scenario, with an estimated sea level rise of 104 cm, indicates considerable impact on the service sector, groundwater and protected nature areas. The service sector and the protected areas will be mostly impacted due to the loss of large portions of coastal areas...
Johannes Klein | 2005-01-01
In Pärnu new plans are publicly displayed and can be criticized by the public before they come into force...
Johannes Klein | 2005-04-01
The impact assessment evaluates how SLR affects an area or a region. Direct effects of SLR area are mainly new areas permanently inundated by sea and new areas prone to flooding. These effects depend directly on the height of the SLR and the topography of the affected area...
Heidi Virkki | 2005-04-01
The institutional coping capacity in Itä-Uusimaa is rather high. Local experts generally work closely together and have already established communication channels. This co-operation concerns the flood risk of today, not the future sea level rise...
Heidi Virkki | 2005-03-31
The three different mean sea level surface height scenarios (high, medium and low case) for the Baltic Sea released by the SEAREG project for Itä-Uusimaa are: high - a sea level rise of 70-75 cm, medium - a rise of 20-25 cm and low – a drop of 22-27 cm due to the dominating land uplift up to year 2100...
Michael Staudt | 2005-03-23
In the GIS the sea level rise scenarios were outlined with the help of digital elevation models and the impacted hot spots were identified in a spatial analysis...
Michael Staudt | 2005-03-23
During the Gdańsk case study meeting in October 2004 interviews were performed with local experts to evaluate the impact of the sea level rise scenaios for Gdańsk...
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
Although having a long shoreline with countless islands, Helsinki lies on a relatively high elevation, thus in general being less susceptible to coastal flooding...
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
The topography of Helsinki in general makes the city little vulnerable towards flooding. Only few low-lying areas will experience a notable higher flood risk due to sea level rise...
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
In Helsinki sea level rise came first into discussion in 1989. As a result the lowest elevation level in Ruoholahti residential area was set to from 2 to 3 meters when newly built up in the 90's...
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
Although having a long shoreline with countless islands, Helsinki lies on a relatively high elevation, thus in general being less vulnerable to coastal flooding...
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