INCOIS Prepares Coastal Vulnerability Index
Recently, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) carried out coastal vulnerability assessment for entire Indian coast at states level to bring out an Atlas comprising 156 maps on 1:1,00,000 scales to prepare a Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI).
Coastal Vulnerability
- Coastal vulnerability is a spatial concept that identifies people and places that are susceptible to disturbances resulting from coastal hazards such as coastal storms, sea level rise and erosion, etc.
- These hazards pose significant threats to coastal physical, economic, and social systems.
Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI)
- The maps determine the coastal risks due to future sea-level rise based on the ....
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