Robert J. Nicholls’s research while affiliated with University of East Anglia and other places

... To describe those who use scientific information to inform decisions, we use the term practitioner to include the many different professions (e.g., coastal managers, planners, emergency managers, and other decision-makers, etc.) and levels of decisionmaking (e.g., cities, regions, states, etc.) Van De Wal et al., 2022). This research domain also highlights the importance of understanding the decisions the users are facing and the context they are situated in as starting points because decisions and context differ from case to case and hence require different decision-making frameworks, which in turn require different kinds of SLR information (Hinkel et al., 2019;Hirschfeld, Boyle, et al., 2024;Jones et al., 2014;Kleindorfer et al., 1993;Simpson et al., 2016). This work also includes an understanding of the decision-making process that accommodate the uncertain and dynamic nature of climate risk (Lempert & Collins, 2007;Marchau et al., 2019;National Research Council (NRC), 2009). ...

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Practitioners’ Needs for Addressing the Challenges of Sea‐Level Rise—A Qualitative Assessment

... Several previous bibliometric studies have conducted comprehensive analyses on climate-related research, including studies on climate change [33][34][35][36][37][38], climate engineering [39], climate change impacts [40][41][42][43], and climate change adaptation [44][45][46][47]. While systematic literature reviews have been conducted on CPMs [12,14,26,[48][49], to our knowledge, bibliometric analysis has not yet been applied to analyze research on CPMs. ...

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Convection-Permitting Model Research

... Low-lying coastal regions will face higher risks than other geographic areas. For instance, a 250 mm-300 mm rise in sea level along low-lying coastlines by 2050 will significantly increase the risk of severe flooding, especially in major coastal urban centres (Ohenhen et al., 2024). According to the same study, the rise in relative sea-levels in the US is projected to weaken the effectiveness of current coastal defences by 2050 and flood an extra 1300 sq. ...

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Vegetative nature-based solutions for coastal flood risk management: Benefits, challenges, and uncertainties

... During the summer months, beach tourism, the main tourist product of the Greek tourism industry, faces numerous challenges [4]. Increasing temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns impact the overall experience of tourists [4,5], whereas sea level rise may affect coastal erosion and beach quality [6][7][8]. In addition, extreme heat waves, droughts, and heavy rainfall events can reduce the attractiveness of beach destinations, affecting tourist arrivals and revenues [9]. ...

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Effects of Climate Change on the Future Attractiveness of Tourist Destinations in Greece

... Building on the work reported in IPCC AR6, Turner et al. (2023) address this need in their pioneering study on sea level rise projections that extend to 2500. Turner et al. (2023) provide new probabilistic, model-based, timecontinuous projections of GMSL rise across centuries for emissions scenarios, which align with the Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement (i.e., RCP2.6/SSP1-2.6 ...

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The Need for Multi‐Century Projections of Sea Level Rise

... Against this background, the case of rain-induced nuisance flooding in HCMC is an informative example of the changing adaptation requirements arising from local governance, urbanization and climate change, and of the need to combine measures of large-scale centralized adaptation (like the ring dike protecting the center of HCMC) with small-scale decentralized approaches (like private precautionary measures or rainwater retention). Urbanization trends (i.e., concentration of exposed values and vulnerable population groups) and resulting challenges for flood adaptation (e.g., governance in informal settlements, uncontrolled land subsidence etc.) are very similar across many coastal megacities, particularly in the global south (Barragán & Andrés, 2015;Magnan et al., 2023;Wannewitz et al., 2024). Moreover, HCMC's location in the low-elevation coastal zone between the Mekong delta and the Dong Nai and Saigon estuaries make the physical setting comparable to many other coastal cities, particularly in Southeast Asia, for example, Jakarta or Bangkok (Kulp & Strauss, 2019). ...

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Effective Adaptation Options to Alleviate Nuisance Flooding in Coastal Megacities—Learning From Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

... In this context, politics and policy have run ahead and adopted the term ''resilience'' to the extent that it currently enjoys widespread, albeit vague, use in many policy documents. 11,79 For operational use in policy sectors, resilience needs to be quantified so that, as a minimum, changes in system state can be tracked. 4 One further important requirement is that any metric must be able to capture the cultural traditions that influence perceptions and the value placed on the constituent components of the system, such as landscape, ecology, safety, prosperity, etc. 80 The multiple dimensions of the systems that we seek to manage mean that there is no single resilience measure. ...

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Framing resilience to manage complex environmental systems

... They provide vital services, including carbon storage, coastal protection, and food and livelihood support for millions of coastal residents (Brander et al., 2012;Vo et al., 2012;Mohamed et al., 2024). However, these ecosystems face severe threats from deforestation, climate change, and land conversion-particularly in Southeast Asian hotspots like Myanmar, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Indonesia (Primavera, 2008;Gandhi and Jones, 2019;Samanta et al., 2023;Parkinson and Wdowinski, 2022). Encouragingly, recent conservation efforts have slowed the rate of mangrove loss. ...

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Diversity and Abundance of Mangrove Gastropods in Setiu Wetlands and Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia

... Information about the selected hurricanes from the tropical cyclone reports of the National Hurricane Center (Pasch et al., 2006, for Wilma;Stewart, 2017, for Matthew;Cangialosi et al., 2021, for Irma;Pasch et al., 2023, for Maria Marsooli and Lin, 2018;Muis et al., 2019;Toomey et al., 2022;Gori et al., 2023;Parker et al., 2023;Martín et al., 2023) and global hindcasts (Muis et al., 2016;Dullaart et al., 2021). More recently, hydrodynamic models have also been employed to derive projections of storm surges at both regional (Camelo et al., 2020;Makris et al., 2023;Wood et al., 2023) and global (Vousdoukas et al., 2018;Muis et al., 2020Muis et al., , 2023 scales, driven by climate model data. The primary drivers for hydrodynamic models are atmospheric forcings such as winds and atmospheric surface pressure. ...

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Regional modelling of extreme sea levels induced by hurricanes

... Although the differences between low-emission and high-emission scenarios in terms of exposure are relatively modest in the short term, these variations are not inconsequential, given the inevitable continued rise in sea level beyond 2050 and its likely acceleration with further warming 9 . Therefore, a long-term proactive and continuous adaptation beyond simple coastal protection would be needed 50 . For the sustainability and resilience of US coastal cities, it is critical to adopt a built-upon multifaceted strategy involving the implementation of adaptive measures, the regulation of subsidence and the implementation of stringent climate-change policies that keep carbon emissions low. ...

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Disappearing cities on US coasts