Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change, ss.77, Marseille, 2024
This chapter gives a comprehensive overview of the main coastal impacts and risks affecting Mediterranean coasts. Due to their importance and potential impact on the Mediterranean coastal system, the main risks covered are erosion, flooding, water-related risks (e.g. saltwater intrusion and pollution), and biological risks. They are analysed at different time scales associated with drivers of different origin, as described in Chapter 2. The different risks under current conditions and under the effect of climate change are characterised, providing the respective magnitude for the Mediterranean and identifying coastal hotspots. The main impacts induced by analysed drivers and hazards are characterised by considering their potential effects on the economy (related to main economic sectors in the Mediterranean coastal zone such as tourism, agriculture, and fisheries), ecology (impacts on representative habitats and ecosystems such as deltas, wetlands, and seagrass) and on the human system (cultural heritage and human health).
It is important to bear in mind that some of the economic activities potentially affected by analysed hazards, such as coastal tourism, are also drivers of impacts along the Mediterranean coastal system. The current picture for the Mediterranean Basin is a coastal fringe affected by multiple hazards, with significant exposure due to the socio-economic-cultural setting of the Mediterranean with high population density and concentration of assets and relatively high vulnerability due to the decrease in natural coastal resilience.