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Coastal Vulnerability Indices: Constraints and Opportunities of Nagapattinam Region, Tamil Nadu, India

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Rajesh J and Lakshumanan C

Coastal vulnerability and sensitivity indices accept that the addition of socio-economic variables defining the vulnerable areas. These studies envisage the incorporation of socio-economic variables into a GIS based coastal vulnerability index for shoreline management of Nagapattinam. a socio-economic sub-index was developed to contribute potentially one third of the overall index score, the other components consisted of coastal forcing and coastal characteristic sub-indices. All variables were ranked on separately 1-5 scale with 5 being the most vulnerable. The variables were integrated with sub-indices and the sub-indices were combined to produce the
overall index.

Most previously developed coastal vulnerability/sensitivity ind... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2327-4581.1000164

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