The UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience

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Lazarus, E., Aldabet, S., Thompson, C., Hill, C., Nicholls, R., French, J., Brown, S., Tompkins, E., Haigh, I., Townend, I. and Penning-Rowsell, E. 2021. The UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience. Anthropocene Coasts. 4 (1), pp. 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1139/anc-2020-0023
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TitleThe UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience
AuthorsLazarus, E., Aldabet, S., Thompson, C., Hill, C., Nicholls, R., French, J., Brown, S., Tompkins, E., Haigh, I., Townend, I. and Penning-Rowsell, E.
Abstract

In the UK, coastal flooding and erosion are two of the primary climate-related hazards to communities, businesses, and infrastructure. To better address the ramifications of those hazards, now and into the future, the UK needs to transform its scattered, fragmented coastal data resources into a systematic, integrated portal for quality-assured, publicly accessible open data. Such a portal would support analyses of coastal risk and resilience by hosting, in addition to data layers for coastal flooding and erosion, a diverse array of spatial datasets for building footprints, infrastructure networks, land use, population, and various socio-economic measures and indicators derived from survey and census data. The portal would facilitate novel combinations of spatial data layers to yield scientifically, societally, and economically beneficial insights into UK coastal systems.

KeywordsNature and Landscape Conservation, Ocean Engineering, Waste Management and Disposal, Oceanography
Research GroupFlood Hazard Research Centre
PublisherCanadian Science Publishing
JournalAnthropocene Coasts
ISSN2561-4150
Publication dates
Print01 Jan 2021
Online17 Sep 2021
Publication process dates
Deposited06 Oct 2021
Accepted10 Jun 2021
Output statusPublished
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Copyright remains with the author(s) or their institution(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_GB, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1139/anc-2020-0023
LanguageEnglish
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