Exposure of tourism development to salt karst hazards along the Jordanian Dead Sea shore

Abou Karaki, Najib; Fiaschi, Simone; Paenen, Killian; Al-Awabdeh, Mohammad; Closson, Damien

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2111-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2111-2019

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Environmental changes and hazards in the Dead Sea region (NHESS/ACP/HESS/SE...

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2111-2019

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26 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 26 Apr 2019

Exposure of tourism development to salt karst hazards along the Jordanian Dead Sea shore

Najib Abou Karaki, Simone Fiaschi, Killian Paenen, Mohammad Al-Awabdeh, and Damien Closson

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Final revised paper (published on 26 Apr 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 10 Oct 2018)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Vulnerability of tourism development to salt karst hazards along the Jordanian Dead Sea shore', Mario Parise, 13 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Answer AC1 to RC1', Damien Closson, 18 Jan 2019
SC1: 'Landslide triggers and Conclusions', Eoghan Holohan, 15 Oct 2018
- SC3: 'AC to SC1 (Holohan)', Najib Abou Karaki, 18 Oct 2018
SC2: 'AC to RC1 (Mario Parise)', Najib Abou Karaki, 18 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Review of AbouKaraki etal. MS2018-479', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Oct 2018
- SC4: 'AC2 to RC2 and others too', Najib Abou Karaki, 26 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Answers to reviewer 2 : final', Damien Closson, 20 Jan 2019
RC3: 'Review of Abou Karaki et al., "Vulnerability of tourism development to salt karst hazards along the Jordanian Dead Sea"', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Nov 2018
- SC5: 'AC3 to RC3', Najib Abou Karaki, 26 Dec 2018
  - AC3: 'AC3 to RC3 and author's changes in manuscript', Damien Closson, 20 Jan 2019

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (05 Feb 2019) by Christian Siebert

AR by Damien Closson on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (18 Feb 2019) by Christian Siebert

AR by Damien Closson on behalf of the Authors (28 Mar 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Apr 2019) by Christian Siebert

AR by Damien Closson on behalf of the Authors (12 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The Dead Sea shore is a unique salt karst system. Development began in the 1960s, when the water resources that used to feed the Dead Sea were diverted. The water level is falling at more than 1 m yr⁻¹, causing a hydrostatic disequilibrium between the underground fresh water and the base level. Despite these conditions, tourism development projects have flourished. Here, we show that a 10 km long strip of coast that encompasses several resorts is exposed to subsidence, sinkholes and landslides.