Applying two methodologies of an integrated coastal vulnerability index (ICVI) to future sea-level rise

Climate change is an issue of concern and expected to cause various adverse impacts on human societies in the near long-term future. Sea-level rise, which caused by global warming melting continental ice sheets, combination with rising population evolution activities coastal areas, tends make more prone hazards. The Gulf Corinth Greece its diverse landforms tectonic complexity makes region unique when considering assessment vulnerability. In this study we apply Integrated Coastal Vulnerability Index (ICVI) a potential sea-level rise for southern coastline (Greece) consisting physical socio-economic parameters. Among multiple different methodologies that have been developed over recent years, decided two mathematical approaches believe are best suited protection our area. first one, ICVI_1, based (CVI) Thieler Hammar-Klose (1999) variables equal relative importance, whereas second ICVI_2, uses Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP) assignment weight values each parameter. parameters were identified ranked into vulnerability index scale from 1 5. results reveal both depict or less same sections high very vulnerability, but differ distribution extreme values. ICVI_1 shows 18.3% total features (score 5), while ICVI_2 9.1%. highest scores mostly represented eastern part studied low-lying regions gentle slope concentrated activity.