Coastal erosion and village relocation: a Colombian case study

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dc.citation.journalTitleOcean & Coastal Management
dc.contributor.authorCorrea-Arango, Ivan D.spa
dc.contributor.authorGonzales, Juan Luisspa
dc.contributor.departmentUniversidad EAFIT. Departamento de Geologíaspa
dc.contributor.eafitauthorIvan D. Correa-Arango (icorrea@eafit.edu.co)spa
dc.contributor.researchgroupCiencias del Marspa
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-12T16:27:52Z
dc.date.available2014-05-12T16:27:52Z
dc.date.issued2000-01-01
dc.description.abstractBecause of its tectonic setting, the Paci"c coast of Colombia is subject to a variety of geological hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis and associated phenomena such as regional and local coastal subsidence, #ooding and soil liquefaction. Erosional trends are prevalent along much of the 700 km long, low barrier island's shorelines of the Paci"c littoral and land losses are enhanced by factors such as 30 cm regional sea level rises associated to the occurrence of El Nin8o. Marine erosion is threatening more seashore littoral villages and worsening the already di$cult socioeconomic conditions of most part of the inhabitants. Because of diverse and strong motivations to stay near the sea, the responses of barriers island's inhabitants to marine erosion has consisted in most cases of repetitive in-shore and along-shore directed relocations of villages, rather than de"nitive abandonment of the islands. In the long run, this procedure only has postponed the problem and led to repetitive relocations and economical losses. The recent inland relocation of El Choncho village, on the San Juan River delta, illustrates a di!erent response to marine erosion. Although a new along-shore relocation was physically possible, inhabitants decided to abandon the barrier island and migrate to an interior, ancient beach ridge complex, applying a prudent solution which will be the most appropriate for other threatened villages of the Paci"c littoral. A detailed geomorphologic mapping program must be conducted in order to identify appropriate sites for inland relocation of existing villages on the barriers islands of the Colombian Paci"c coast. ( 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.eng
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/S0964-5691(99)00066-6
dc.identifier.issn0964-5691
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/1600
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofOcean & Coastal Management, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 51-64eng
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0964569199000666
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccesseng
dc.rights.localAcceso restringidospa
dc.subject.keywordSubsidences (earth movements)eng
dc.subject.keywordEarthquakeseng
dc.subject.keywordTsunamiseng
dc.subject.keywordSoil liquefactioneng
dc.subject.keywordRiesgos Geológicosspa
dc.subject.keywordErosión marinaspa
dc.subject.lembSUBSIDENCIAS (GEOLOGÍA)spa
dc.subject.lembTERREMOTOSspa
dc.subject.lembMAREMOTOSspa
dc.subject.lembLICUEFACCIÓN DE SUELOSspa
dc.titleCoastal erosion and village relocation: a Colombian case studyeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleeng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioneng
dc.typepublishedVersioneng
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