Monitoring and Modelling Coastal Vulnerability and Mitigation Proposal for an Archaeological Site (Kaulonia, Southern Italy)

Diana Di Luccio, Guido Benassai, Gianluigi Di Paola, Carmen Maria Rosskopf, Luigi Mucerino, Raffaele Montella and Pasquale Contestabile
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Diana Di Luccio: Department of Science and Technologies, University of Naples “Parthenope”, 80133 Napoli, Italy
Guido Benassai: Department of Engineering, University of Naples “Parthenope”, 80133 Napoli, Italy
Gianluigi Di Paola: Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, Italy
Carmen Maria Rosskopf: Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, 86090 Pesche, Italy
Luigi Mucerino: Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genova, 16126 Genova, Italy
Raffaele Montella: Department of Science and Technologies, University of Naples “Parthenope”, 80133 Napoli, Italy
Pasquale Contestabile: Department of Engineering, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Aversa (Caserta), Italy

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-18

Abstract: This paper presents a Coastal Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) of a microtidal beach located on the Ionian Sea in Calabria region (southern Italy) in order to examine the influence of the different run-up equations on CVA score and propose mitigation measures for the most vulnerable parts of the beach. The coastal area has been severely eroded by extreme wave storms, which have also damaged important archaeological structures located on a nearby cliff. A typical 1 year return period (T r ) storm, associated with the recent criticalities, was chosen to test the different run-up formulas (Holman (1986), Mase (1989) Stockdon et al. (2006) and Poate et al. (2016)) on a number of beach profiles in order to check the sensitivity of the CVA calculation with regard to the different run-up equations. The obtained results provide evidence that different run-up levels often give rise to different CVA scores. Based on vulnerability results, some mitigation measures have been proposed for the beach in front of the archaeological area, based on submerged detached breakwater and an adherent gabion wall for the cliff defence.

Keywords: run-up; wave numerical model; beach characterization; southern Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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