A systematic review of coastal vulnerability assessment methods in the Egyptian context: the case study

Figures & data

Figure 1. PRISMA flowchart – Study methodology of excluded and included documents. Source: adapted from [13].

Figure 2. Number of documents using each coastal vulnerability assessment method.

Source: Authors

Table 1. Spatial scales found in reviewed documents.

Scale	Number of documents	References
Neighborhood	2	[15,18]
City	6	[24,25,32–35]
Sub-regional	3	[14,23,38]
Regional	6	[16,20,28–31]
National	5	[9,17,26,27,39]
International	4	[19,21,36,37]

Source: Authors.

Figure 3. Relationship between assessment studies’ locations and spatial scale.Source: Authors.

Figure 4. Number of documents using each variable across different scales.Source: Authors.

Figure 5. Collective chart between the used methods, spatial scale, and variables..

Source: Authors

Table 2. Future research vulnerability assessment approaches.

Source: Authors.

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