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Aplicación de seis índices de vulnerabilidad costera (CVI) en el contexto gallego

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The vulnerability study has historically been a significant field within coastal research. The relevance that has been given to this type of work must be added in recent years; the need to manage the coast in the context of global change, which increases the investigations that apply the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVIs) exponentially. For this propose, this study apply the main methodologies about vulnerability index and different approaches to categorizes the vulnerability levels. This project focuses on the different methods available for analyzing coastal vulnerability, using them to define its weaknesses and strengths in the Galician context. From these premises, the difficulty of including anthropic factors in this type of work has been noted, as well as the enormous variety of limits used for the delimitation of the categories. The application of the different approaches has shown the importance of the selection of parameters in the final outputs, as well as the reduction of vulnerability considering anthropic factors in areas where these have less weight. At the same time, they increase in sectors close to infrastructures, as in the case analyzed in A Lanzada.
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