The world is urbanizing most rapidly in tropical to sub-temperate areas and coastal zones. Climate change along with other global forcings will diminish the opportunities for sustainability of cities, especially low-income countries. include temperature heatwave increases that are expanding equatorial belt, sea-level rise, an increase frequency intense cyclones, both decreases freshwater inputs...

This paper is a partial result of the research project, Strategies for Sustainable Regeneration in Tourism Settlements on the Mediterranean Coast (ERAM) of the 2011 National Research Plan of Spain. The research focuses on one of the 68 coastal towns of the Valencian Community Region (CV) representing more than 12.5% of the GDP. Although tourism is a fundamental economic strategy for many coasta...

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has sponsored several reconnaissance teams to survey effects of the great East Japan earthquake and Tohoku tsunami. The first of these was the tsunami team, which traveled to Japan from April 15 to May 1, 2011, and focused on tsunami effects on coastal buildings, bridges, port facilities and coastal protective structures. All seven members of the t...

We calculated the usable distance of the main roads in the coastal area of Iwate prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Calculations were based on a vehicle tracking map built from G-BOOK telematics data using QGIS, an open source geographic information system. The main findings are as follows. (1) The change in the accumulative usable road distance ratio during the research period di...

The atmospheres in many cities along the coastal lines in the world have been rapidly changed to coastal-industrial atmosphere. Hence, it is vital to investigate the corrosion behavior of steel exposed to this kind of environment. In this present study, Electrochemical Impedance Spectrography (EIS) and film thickness measurement were applied to monitor the corrosion behavior of weathering steel...

Flooding damage is increasing due to abnormal climates. In particular, in the case of coastal cities, it necessary simultaneously consider inundation caused by marine disasters such as storm surge and tsunami well urbanization. order respond flood prediction must be preceded. Korea, intensity has been classified frequency, hazard maps have produced accordingly. The map generally derived through...