The relationship between climate change adaptation & coastal protection planning in the Mekong Delta – the role of climate services for the decision support system to avoid loss and damage and minimize future costs
The Decision Support Tool (DST) for the Coastal Protection for the Mekong Delta (CPMD) provides an analysis of the current geographical, geological and hydrological situation along the Mekong Delta’s coastline. Besides a surveillance of changes of the coastal regimes over the last decades until today, it also includes an assessment of the major coastal protection infrastructure, including dykes and sluice gates, embankments as well as eco-based foreshore protections such as the mangrove belt.
The combination of coastal regime analysis (including changes in the past) with a description of protective qualities of the coastal infrastructure provides thorough information about the existing exposure and basic vulnerability of the delta’s coastline. It is therefore possible to indicate a risk-level that offers the basis for a prioritization of newly planned protection infrastructure.
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