Lessons from the tsunami 2004 in Aceh: Mitigation or aggravation through trees? Modeling the effect of coastal vegetation on tsunami impact in West Aceh, Indonesia
Description:
Goal: A modeling tool that can assist coastal land-use planners in developing safer and economically viable vegetation barriers to mitigate the impact of a potential future tsunami. Purpose: To develop a robust model, an improved version of the existing one (Laso Bayas 2007) that explicitly considers the role of coastal vegetation as a tsunami mitigating factor. Additional data and evidence from a wider coastal area will be collected to validate and improve the model. Given the homogeneous off-shore factors (important to determine tsunami strength) of the West Aceh and surrounding coastal areas (such as bathymetry, coastal orientation and distance to epicenter), the area is ideal to validate the model in the field as well as to further develop it.
Executive Institute:
Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics 380 Details of Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics 380
Parent institution:
University of Hohenheim (UH) Details of (UH) (Baden-Württemberg)
Contract period:
01. 01. 2009 - 30. 06. 2011
Project budget:
59,257 €
Participating Institutions:
- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Details of ICRAF
- Center For International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Details of CIFOR
Funding Programme:
- BMZ - BEAF Project funding Details of BMZ - BEAF Project funding
Subject:
- Landscape Planning
Purpose of research:
Applied research
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of (BMZ)
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of BEAF - GIZ