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Risk Assessment of Storms in Coastal Zones: Case Studies from Cartagena (Colombia) and Cadiz (Spain)

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Recent studies, i.e. Crowell et al. (J Coast Res 235:3–5, 2007) and World Resources Institute (Decision making in a changing climate. United Nations Development Programme World Bank and World Resources Institute, Washington, 2010), indicated that 20 % (1,409 million) of the world population lives within 25 km of the coastline and 40 % (2,818 million) within less than 100 km—a coastal strip representing only 20 % of the global land surface. This area hosts 100 % of the population of Denmark, 99 % of the UK, 88 % of Sweden, 79 % of Italy and 45 % of Spain. Such a concentration of population and activities in coastal zones leads to an increase in vulnerability to coastal hazards (Adger et al. in Science 309:1036–1039, 2005).

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  1. Faculty of Basics Sciences, Physics Program, University of Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia

    Nelson Rangel-Buitrago

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain

    Giorgio Anfuso

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Rangel-Buitrago, N., Anfuso, G. (2015). Introduction. In: Risk Assessment of Storms in Coastal Zones: Case Studies from Cartagena (Colombia) and Cadiz (Spain). SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15844-0_1

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