'Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG)'
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Abstract
The main aim of this work is to address the impact of storms
on the coast from the coastal manager’s standpoint, i.e., how to use all the scientific
knowledge about coastal storms presented in the different chapters of the current book
in a practical way. Thus, the aim is to help managers make decisions on the design of
DRR measures, and also to allocate resources for such purposes. To this end, this work
presents two different and complementary ways to anticipate the impact of coastal
storms. The first one consists of a Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Framework to be
applied at a regional scale (~100 km), whereas the second one consists of an Early
Warning System to be applied locally (1 km). In both cases, the main aspects to be
considered are presented in detail and are illustrated with real cases
