Integrating tsunami risk assessments in development planning: lessons from Western India

Date: 02 November 2021

Handling Editor: Prof Dan Osborn

Editorial decision and status: Declined for publication by the Editors of UCL Open: Environment and withdrawn from submission. This preprint (and all other versions of it) will remain online on the preprint server with its registered DOI, but the article is no longer under consideration for peer review at UCL Open: Environment and the authors are free to submit this manuscript to any other relevant journal of their choice. For more information about this please read the journal’s Editorial Policy online at https://ucl-about.scienceopen.com/publishing-policies.

Decision Date: 31/7/2020

Handling Editor: Dan Osborn

The Handling Editor requested revisions; the article has been returned to the authors to make this revision.

Decision Date: 20/12/2019

Handling Editor: Dan Osborn

This article is a preprint article and has not been peer-reviewed. It is under consideration following submission to UCL Open: Environment Preprint for open peer review.

--- the authors must account for the fundamental comment about data and information contained in the remarks of Reviewer 2. The paper needs to sound less like a popular article and contain enough data to qualify as a research paper. If the authors intend this to be a commentary article then they need to develop the article further in line with, or through acknowledging the work of the many international bodies who deal with issues linked to tsunamis and other extreme events. That does not of curse preclude use of data of diagrams etc that might aid understanding,

--- Reviewer 1 questions the choice of words at several points in the text and implies that more attention is needed to these parts of the paper to clarify understanding. All the points referred to must be addressed if the paper is to be fully published. His points on aligning the paper with international efforts or, alternatively, using these as a broader context for the paper need to be addressed.

On behal of Dan Osborn, 

Editor-in-Chief

Comments received from Aromar Revi: 

It could have said a little more about how we can reduce uncertainty in at least a few dimensions. Else, there is limited space for a research agenda to be built. For example, there is a fair degree that can be learned/borrowed from storm surge inundation modeling and responses along the western coast and most certainly the eastern coast. There are masses of work done on both modeling and implementation around NCRMP in Gujarat.