North Africa Coastal Cities Address Natural Disasters and Climate Change

North Africa's coastal cities, long benefitting from their ready access to commerce and culture, also face distinct vulnerabilities due to their location. Natural hazards and extreme weather patterns impose risks on coastal areas that inland areas seldom encounter. North Africa's increasingly populous cities face tangible risks today, but these will be amplified as the impacts of global climate change further manifest themselves over the decades to come. The study, 'climate change adaptation and natural disasters preparedness in the coastal cities of North Africa,' analyzed the exposure of all four locations to natural disasters, such as floods and storm surges, earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as to the increasingly frequent weather extremes associated with climate change. The project, which has taken place from June 2009 to June 2011, has provided tools for evaluating the risks, costing out potential losses, and moving toward specific reforms and investments designed to adapt the cities to a changing climate and increase their resilience to natural hazards.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2011-06
Subjects:	AIR, ASPECTS OF DISASTER RESPONSE, AVERAGE RAINFALL, BASINS, BEACH, BEACHES, CIVIL DEFENSE, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS, CLIMATE PROJECTIONS, CLIMATE-CHANGE, CLIMATE-RELATED RISKS, CLIMATE-RELATED VULNERABILITIES, CLIMATIC SHIFTS, COAST, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL EROSION, COASTAL ZONE, COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT, COASTAL ZONES, CONSERVATION, CONSTRUCTION, DAMAGES, DECREASE IN RAINFALL, DIKES, DISASTER, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, DISASTER PREVENTION, DISASTER RESPONSE, DISASTER RISK, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, DISASTER RISKS, DISCHARGE, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE BASINS, DRAINAGE FACILITIES, DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, DRY SUMMERS, EARLY WARNING, EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS, EARTHQUAKE, EARTHQUAKES, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, EPHEMERAL STREAMS, EXTREME EPISODES, EXTREME PRECIPITATION, EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS, EXTREME RAINFALL, EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS, EXTREME WEATHER, EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, FLOOD, FLOOD LEVELS, FLOOD PROTECTION, FLOODING, FLOODPRONE AREAS, FLOODS, FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS, GLOBAL CLIMATE, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, HEAT WAVES, HEAVY RAINFALL, HEAVY RAINS, HOUSING, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, LAKES, LAND SUBSIDENCE, LAND USE, LANDSLIDES, LOCAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, METEOROLOGICAL DATA, METEOROLOGY, MITIGATION, NATIONAL SCALE, NATURAL CATASTROPHES, NATURAL DISASTER, NATURAL DISASTERS, NATURAL HAZARDS, PLANNING PROCESS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION EVENTS, PREVENTIVE ACTIONS, PUBLIC HEALTH, RAIN, RAINFALL EVENTS, RAINWATER, RECONSTRUCTION, RESIDENTIAL AREAS, RISK ASSESSMENT, RIVER, RUNOFF, RUNOFF VOLUMES, SAND, SAND BEACHES, SATELLITE IMAGES, SAVINGS, SEA DEFENCES, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA-LEVEL, SEA-LEVEL RISE, SHORE, SLUM, SLUMS, SOILS, STORM, STORM SURGES, STORMS, TEMPERATURE, TEMPERATURE CHANGES, TEMPERATURES, TSUNAMI, TSUNAMIS, URBAN STRUCTURES, WARMER TEMPERATURES, WEATHER EXTREMES, WETLANDS, WINDS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/19459850/north-africa-coastal-cities-address-natural-disasters-climate-change-summary-regional-study https://hdl.handle.net/10986/18708
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