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Ranljivost slovenske obale glede na dvigajočo se gladino morja
le the low-lying coastal areas are exposed to more frequent and extensi-
ve flooding. For the assessment, we used the Physical Vulnerability Index
(PVI), which captures the impact of selected physical indicators (elevati-
on, coastal slope, orientation of the coast, seabed slope, preservation of
the natural coast, beach width, flood hazard and visible geomorphic pro-
cesses) on the vulnerability of individual coastal segments. We classified
them into five categories and found that 5.7% of the coast could be classi-
fied as highly vulnerable and 2.9% as very highly vulnerable.
Keywords: sea level, abrasion, floods, climate change, physical vulnerabi-
lity index (PVI), geographic information systems (GIS), Slovenian coast,
geography
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