Abstract
With the rapid development of urbanization around the world, the sea-level-rise problem is gaining more and more attention in the 21st century. Sea-level rise is the result of a combination of climate-related factors, structural factors and human activities. Recent studies related to the contributions of these factors to sea-level rise are reviewed and analyzed in this paper. The results suggest that the melting of glaciers and ice sheets have contributed the most to sea-level rise and will continue to be the dominant factor in sea-level rise for the following decades. As sea-level rise becomes an increasingly serious problem, geological disasters related to sea-level rise are also gaining more attention. To better understand the effect of sea-level rise on geological disasters, relevant issues including storm surges, seawater intrusion, the loss of coastal wetland, seismicity, seismic liquefaction and submarine mass failure are further reviewed and highlighted. In response to the risks of those disasters caused by sea-level rise, some disaster mitigation measures are proposed, and in the end, the quantitative disaster assessment concept based on resilience is introduced to the coastal urban system, to assess its ability to resist and recover from geological disasters due to the sea-level rise.
Highlights
Sea-level rise is one of the most significant phenomena affecting future human development
Sea-level rise can submerge coastal areas, and lead to some geological disasters, which usually result in loss of life and properties [2–4], and some coastal zone residents have been forced to move away from places threatened by the seawater [5]
Under the conditions of representative concention pathway (RCP) 8.5, IPCC analyzed the trend of sea-level rise due to contributed to approximately 30% of the global sea‐level rise
Summary
Sea-level rise is one of the most significant phenomena affecting future human development. Satellite altimetry shows that the global average sea level is rising at an increasing rate along with the disappearance of glaciers in some places (Figure 1) [8,9]. With the continuous change of climate, the rise of the sea level has led to various geological disasters worldwide, and their frequency may increase in the future. We introduce the concept of resilience to the field of evaluation and prevention of geological disasters caused by sea-level rise in coastal cities, to realize effective risk control. From the perspective of disaster management, the new resilience-based concept is introduced to the prevention and control of related disasters caused by the sea-level rise in coastal cities
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