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About the Fingerprinting storm and tsunami sediment signatures - Assessing future coastal resilience challenges from extreme events at University of Dundee
The number of deaths attributed to natural hazards continues to rise, despite progress in implementing disaster risk reduction strategies.
From 1990 to 2019, more than 1.7 million people died in internationally reported natural hazards. Despite the efforts to address sustainable development goals on climate change and to implement risk reduction strategies and promote hazard awareness in vulnerable areas, more research is needed to build improved resilience in affected communities and to limit the scale of impacts from climate-related hazards and disasters.
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The specific objectives include:
- To develop new hazard assessment frameworks to determine the scale of risks impacts from the future occurrence of these types of devastating coastal events.
- To develop new guidelines by which the resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to short-term shocks (i.e. individual tsunami or storm events) and the longer-term legacy from environmental change (i.e. rising sea levels, increasing storm frequency and magnitude) can be enhanced.
- To improve physical understanding of the underlying interactions between tsunami and/or storm hydrodynamics and the sedimentary, hydrogeological and morphological response of the coastal margins affected, especially in the nearshore region.
- To inform other related risks from these events such as (i) increased likelihood of saline intrusion into drinking water supplies (surface waterbodies and aquafers), (ii) impacts on critical infrastructure
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Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
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- You should have an honours degree at 2.1 or above, and a Masters degree in a relevant discipline.
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20895 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 20895 GBP per year during 36 months. -
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4825 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4825 GBP per year during 36 months.
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