Integrating knowledge to assess coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise: The development of the DIVA tool |
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Authors: | Jochen Hinkel Richard J.T. Klein |
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Affiliation: | aPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany;bStockholm Environment Institute, Kräftriket 2B, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | This paper describes the development of the DIVA tool, a user-friendly tool for assessing coastal vulnerability from subnational to global levels. The development involved the two major challenges of integrating knowledge in the form of data, scenarios and models from various natural, social and engineering science disciplines and making this integrated knowledge accessible to a broad community of end-users. These challenges were addressed by (i) creating and applying the DIVA method, an iterative, modular method for developing integrating models amongst distributed partners and (ii) making the data, scenarios and integrated model, equipped with a powerful graphical user interface, directly and freely available to end-users. |
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Keywords: | Knowledge integration Coastal vulnerability Sea-level rise |
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