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- Title
Marées de tempête et communautés à risques dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick : Cas de la communauté de Pointe-du-Chêne.
- Authors
Delusca, Kénel; Vasseur, Liette; Chouinard, Omer
- Abstract
The Case of the Community of Pointe-du-Chêne". It is largely accepted that climate change resulting from human activities will most likely have severe impacts on natural and human-made systems. Among these systems, coastal zones have been considered very vulnerable. Most recent studies on the impacts and vulnerabilities of coastal zones to climate change have examined the average values of sea level rise. This approach however does not take into account the potential damage due to extreme events such as storm surges. The objective of this project was to identify localities in the community of Pointe-du-Chêne, New Brunswick, that were flooded during the exceptional storm surge of January 2000 in order to develop new risk indicators of such events. The methodology included the integration of a high resolution digital elevation model coming from data generated from the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), with flood scenarios, and cadastral and demographic information. The flood damage indicators generated from this study confirm that a large part of the community of Pointe-du-Chêne was effectively affected by this 2000 storm surge. The results confirm not only the incredible damage claims requested for this extreme event but also the need for the integration of climate change and especially the occurrence of extreme events in vulnerability studies of coastal zones.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; COASTAL zone management; SEA level; STORM surges; FLOOD damage
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Regional Science / Revue Canadienne des Sciences Régionales, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0705-4580
- Publication type
Article