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Article

Assessment of the Coastal Vulnerability to the Ongoing Sea Level Rise for the Exquisite Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece)

by
Dimitrios Vandarakis
1,*,
Ioannis P. Panagiotopoulos
1,2,
Vassiliki Loukaidi
1,
Georgios-Angelos Hatiris
3,4,
Paraskevi Drakopoulou
1,
Aikaterini Kikaki
1,
Fragkiska-Karmela Gad
1,
Stelios Petrakis
1,2,
Dimitra I. Malliouri
1,
Maria Chatzinaki
1,
Ioannis Morfis
1,
Theodore D. Kanellopoulos
1 and
Vasilios Kapsimalis
1
1
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., 19013 Anavyssos, Greece
2
Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, 15784 Zografou, Greece
3
Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Cos Street, 85131 Rhodes, Greece
4
Geography Department, Harokopio University, Eleftheriou Venizelou 70, 17671 Athens, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Water 2021, 13(16), 2169; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162169
Submission received: 10 June 2021 / Revised: 27 July 2021 / Accepted: 4 August 2021 / Published: 7 August 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coastal and Continental Shelf Dynamics in a Changing Climate)
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Abstract

The foreseeable acceleration of global sea level rise could potentially pose a major threat to the natural charm and functional integrity of the world-renowned tourist coastal attractions of Rhodes Island, as a result of the anticipated increasing frequency of flooding and erosion events. Hence, this study aims to determine the most vulnerable segments (in terms of physical impact) of the Rhodes coastline through the widely accepted coastal vulnerability index (CVI), applying a combination of well-known, broadly used approaches and methods. The frequency distribution of the current CVI along the island’s coastline suggests a rather worrying high to very high vulnerability of 40%. In addition, a CVI projection to the end of the 21st century (based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predictive scenarios) indicates an enhancement of the total vulnerability by 48%, mainly focused on the majority of the western coastline. Hence, a considerable number of popular coastal destinations in the island shall remain under unignorable threat and, therefore, coastal managers and decision-makers need to hatch an integrated plan to minimize economic and natural losses, private property damage and tourism infrastructure deterioration from flooding and erosion episodes, which will most likely be intensified in the future.
Keywords: accelerated sea level rise; coastal vulnerability index; coastal tourism; coastal vulnerability mitigation strategy accelerated sea level rise; coastal vulnerability index; coastal tourism; coastal vulnerability mitigation strategy

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Vandarakis, D.; Panagiotopoulos, I.P.; Loukaidi, V.; Hatiris, G.-A.; Drakopoulou, P.; Kikaki, A.; Gad, F.-K.; Petrakis, S.; Malliouri, D.I.; Chatzinaki, M.; et al. Assessment of the Coastal Vulnerability to the Ongoing Sea Level Rise for the Exquisite Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece). Water 2021, 13, 2169. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162169

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Vandarakis D, Panagiotopoulos IP, Loukaidi V, Hatiris G-A, Drakopoulou P, Kikaki A, Gad F-K, Petrakis S, Malliouri DI, Chatzinaki M, et al. Assessment of the Coastal Vulnerability to the Ongoing Sea Level Rise for the Exquisite Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece). Water. 2021; 13(16):2169. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162169

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Vandarakis, Dimitrios, Ioannis P. Panagiotopoulos, Vassiliki Loukaidi, Georgios-Angelos Hatiris, Paraskevi Drakopoulou, Aikaterini Kikaki, Fragkiska-Karmela Gad, Stelios Petrakis, Dimitra I. Malliouri, Maria Chatzinaki, and et al. 2021. "Assessment of the Coastal Vulnerability to the Ongoing Sea Level Rise for the Exquisite Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece)" Water 13, no. 16: 2169. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162169

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Vandarakis, D., Panagiotopoulos, I. P., Loukaidi, V., Hatiris, G.-A., Drakopoulou, P., Kikaki, A., Gad, F.-K., Petrakis, S., Malliouri, D. I., Chatzinaki, M., Morfis, I., Kanellopoulos, T. D., & Kapsimalis, V. (2021). Assessment of the Coastal Vulnerability to the Ongoing Sea Level Rise for the Exquisite Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece). Water, 13(16), 2169. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162169

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