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Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia.

Achieving Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures is the Fourth Goal of the Malaysian National Plan of Action (NPOA) on the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CCF). Semi-quantitative scientific benchmarks in the Coastal Integrity Vulnerability Assessment Too...

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Main Authors: Aazani, Mujahid, Nur Ezaimah, Idris, Mueller, Moritz, Teh, Evelyn, Jolis, Gavin, Ejria, Salleh
Format: Proceeding
Language:English
Published: 2014
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GC Oceanography
GE Environmental Sciences
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spelling my.unimas.ir.308852022-01-04T02:02:02Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/30885/ Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia. Aazani, Mujahid Nur Ezaimah, Idris Mueller, Moritz Teh, Evelyn Jolis, Gavin Ejria, Salleh GC Oceanography GE Environmental Sciences Achieving Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures is the Fourth Goal of the Malaysian National Plan of Action (NPOA) on the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CCF). Semi-quantitative scientific benchmarks in the Coastal Integrity Vulnerability Assessment Tool (CIVAT) enable the comparison between single or multiple study sites, whereby the vulnerability and adaptability of selected shorelines to change may be determined and ranked. Besides the socio-economic factors such as the economic and livelihood dependency of the local communities to the coastal and marine resources, environmental factors such as the health and ecological status of the coastal habitats are included. These pilot studies include the use of shoreline tracing methods, beach profiling, use of existing research literature and socio-economic questionnaires. Preliminary results in Sematan, Sarawak show medium vulnerability, whilst in the Semporna Priority Conservation Area (PCA), Sabah it ranges from medium to high vulnerability. Although there are a limited number of such pilot studies in Sarawak and Sabah, it is important to continue support of such research to address current and future development pressures, and support decision-making process in-line with the Malaysian National CCA measures. 2014 Proceeding PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/30885/1/Predicting%20coastal.pdf Aazani, Mujahid and Nur Ezaimah, Idris and Mueller, Moritz and Teh, Evelyn and Jolis, Gavin and Ejria, Salleh (2014) Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia. In: UNESCO IOC WESTPAC Scientific Symposium 2014, 22-25 April 2014, Nha Trang, Vietnam.
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topic GC Oceanography
GE Environmental Sciences
spellingShingle GC Oceanography
GE Environmental Sciences
Aazani, Mujahid
Nur Ezaimah, Idris
Mueller, Moritz
Teh, Evelyn
Jolis, Gavin
Ejria, Salleh
Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia.
description Achieving Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures is the Fourth Goal of the Malaysian National Plan of Action (NPOA) on the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CCF). Semi-quantitative scientific benchmarks in the Coastal Integrity Vulnerability Assessment Tool (CIVAT) enable the comparison between single or multiple study sites, whereby the vulnerability and adaptability of selected shorelines to change may be determined and ranked. Besides the socio-economic factors such as the economic and livelihood dependency of the local communities to the coastal and marine resources, environmental factors such as the health and ecological status of the coastal habitats are included. These pilot studies include the use of shoreline tracing methods, beach profiling, use of existing research literature and socio-economic questionnaires. Preliminary results in Sematan, Sarawak show medium vulnerability, whilst in the Semporna Priority Conservation Area (PCA), Sabah it ranges from medium to high vulnerability. Although there are a limited number of such pilot studies in Sarawak and Sabah, it is important to continue support of such research to address current and future development pressures, and support decision-making process in-line with the Malaysian National CCA measures.
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author Aazani, Mujahid
Nur Ezaimah, Idris
Mueller, Moritz
Teh, Evelyn
Jolis, Gavin
Ejria, Salleh
author_facet Aazani, Mujahid
Nur Ezaimah, Idris
Mueller, Moritz
Teh, Evelyn
Jolis, Gavin
Ejria, Salleh
author_sort Aazani, Mujahid
title Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia.
title_short Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia.
title_full Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia.
title_fullStr Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia.
title_full_unstemmed Predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of Sarawak and Sabah, Borneo Malaysia.
title_sort predicting coastal integrity vulnerability at selected shorelines of sarawak and sabah, borneo malaysia.
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