Planning and design of tsunami-mitigative coastal vegetation belts

Technical note of PWRI no. 4177:

This report intends to give general guidelines on the planning and design of coastal vegetation belts for tsunami disaster mitigation according to presently available knowledge. The contents include description of the general roles and limitations of coastal vegetations in tsunami disaster mitigation, description of basic steps in planning and design, data requirement and collection, design parameters and calculation procedure, and example of calculation processes as well. Notes on the requirement of combination with other structures and the importance of good governance for the sustainability of tsunami mitigative coastal vegetation belt are also described.