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Assessing morphological landscape carrying capacity for coastal areas in Kuwait

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Title Assessing morphological landscape carrying capacity for coastal areas in Kuwait
 
Creator Baby, S.
 
Subject Sensitivity
Weightage and Ranks
Setback Distance
Buffer Zone
 
Description 1500-1512
An evaluation study on intrinsic carrying capacity was carried out
explicitly and implicitly for morphological landscape for coastal interface.
Multiple data layers were used to create a carrying capacity layer which was
adjusted using sensitive
y factors to support determination of setback distances from the coastline. From
the percentage of area covered by each carrying capacity classes within each 1
km buffer zone, continued till 10 km from coastline shows the increasing trend
of carrying capacity when the distance increases. 20% increase can be seen
compared to the first buffer zone (Buffer zone at 1km) and the last buffer zone
(Buffer zone at 10 km). But 60% of the land is under “Low” to “No carrying
capacity classes”. It was observed that the ecological sensitivity was more
near the coastline and kept reducing when the distance increases for the
coastline. In the 1 km buffer zone nearly 80% area were considered as highly
sensitive area whereas in the 10 km buffer zone only 60% area were coming under
medium to high sensitivity classes. Within 3 km buffer distance from coastline,
nearly 65% to 75% area was occupied by medium to high ecological sensitivity
classes.


 
Date 2016-06-27T10:31:13Z
2016-06-27T10:31:13Z
2014-08
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34490
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(8) [August 2014]