Integrating knowledge to assess coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise: The development of the DIVA tool

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 eng...

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Published in:Global environmental change 2009-08, Vol.19 (3), p.384-395
Main Authors: Hinkel, Jochen, Klein, Richard J.T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Coastal areas
Coastal vulnerability
Evaluation
Innovation
Knowledge integration
Marine
Methodology
Sea-level rise
Threat
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0959-3780
1872-9495
1872-9495
DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.002