Sea level rise impacts in coastal zones: Soft measures to cope with it

Linares, Paola Bianca Cisneros

doi:10.5931/djim.v8i2.282

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“…Their positive impacts on the environment include capacity to enhance natural coastal environment, increase resilience, control erosion, and a greater costeffectiveness compared to hard protection measures (Abel et al 2011;Alexander et al 2012;Cisneros Linares 2013;Lee 2014;Tobey et al 2010;van Wesenbeeck et al 2014). They are also important for enhancing environmental amenity and the recreational value of the coastal zone (Bray et al 1997;Cisneros Linares 2013;Douglas et al 2012). They provide natural scenery and are aesthetically more pleasing compared to hard protection structures (Abel et al 2011;Cisneros Linares 2013).…”

Section: Ecosystem-based Structural Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They are also important for enhancing environmental amenity and the recreational value of the coastal zone (Bray et al 1997;Cisneros Linares 2013;Douglas et al 2012). They provide natural scenery and are aesthetically more pleasing compared to hard protection structures (Abel et al 2011;Cisneros Linares 2013). They also provide many goods and services for humans including water storage and groundwater recharge capacity (Tobey et al 2010) as well as more potential for tourism activities (Cisneros Linares 2013).…”

Section: Ecosystem-based Structural Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(3) vulnerability of specific assets or activities such as nuclear energy infrastructure (Choate III 2011), water resources (Hay and Mimura 2005), or coastal tourism (Scott et al 2012); or (4) only particular types of strategies such as planned retreat (Abel et al 2011;Alexander et al 2012), rolling easements (McLaughlin 2011), ecosystem-based approaches (Alverson et al 2012;Cisneros Linares 2013), and beach nourishment (Cooke et al 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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When the tide gets high: a review of adaptive responses to sea level rise and coastal flooding

Dedekorkut-Howes

Torabi

Howes

2020

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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When the tide gets high: A review of adaptive responses to sea level rise and coastal floodingClimate change poses significant challenges to coastal cities. Local governments around the world are using various strategies to address sea level rise and coastal flooding.Most of these responses are reactive, developed in an ad hoc manner following a specific event, but there is an increasing recognition of the need for more comprehensive and proactive approaches. Research into the topic reflects practice, with numerous studies of particular locations or strategies providing information in a piecemeal manner lacking in comprehensive evaluations. This paper addresses this gap through a systematic literature review that identifies coastal flooding and sea level rise adaptation practices and evaluates their comparative advantages and disadvantages. The findings identify a major knowledge gap in comparative costs and benefits of alternative adaptation strategies and indicate that coastal climate adaptation needs to be tailored to local characteristics and use a combination of different structural and nonstructural measures to be effective.

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When the tide gets high: a review of adaptive responses to sea level rise and coastal flooding

Dedekorkut-Howes

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2020

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Hard measures consist of the use of physical (engineering) structures. Soft or ecosystem-based measures focus on natural solutions (Cisneros Linares, 2013;Douglas et al, 2012). Structural measures can include both hard protection (such as seawalls, dikes, dams) as well as soft measures (typically beach nourishment and protection or construction of salt marshes and wetlands, etc.)…”

Section: Coastal Climate Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning for a different kind of sea change: lessons from Australia for sea level rise and coastal flooding

2020

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Climate change increases hazards for coastal cities where a large proportion of the world's population lives. Adaptation to its impacts ought to be a key focus for planning and policymaking in highly vulnerable countries like Australia. This responsibility, however, has been largely left to local councils with mixed results. This leaves substantial parts of the population at risk where adaptation plans are lacking. Even worse, since the impacts of climate change do not respect jurisdictional boundaries, there is a spill-over risk where good adaptation planning by one council may be undermined by the lack of action in an adjacent council. These risks can be reduced if state and federal governments provide more consistent support and guidance. This paper takes an integrated approach in comparing the relevant legislation, policies, plans, and strategies related to coastal management across the national and state/territory jurisdictions in Australia. The findings indicate that there are major differences, with some states (South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, and Queensland) having more detailed policies and plans for addressing sea level rise and coastal flooding. The findings have implications beyond Australia, particularly for those countries with more devolved or federal systems of government, and provide key lessons for adaptation to climate change. Key policy insights. In the absence of national guidance and leadership, climate adaptation responses will remain uneven across jurisdictions placing more of the population at risk and undermining what adaptation plans there are.. National, state, and territory policies or plans are more effective if they are consistent over time, but they are undermined by reversals when governments change between political parties that have widely varying views on climate change.. Effective long-term adaptation policymaking and planning therefore require a bipartisan commitment and consistent political will across the major political parties to prioritize the problem and commit significant public resources to a response.

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“…Ranger et al (2010, p. 12) defines adaptation as "the measures and policies that aim to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and take advantage of any new opportunities". In 1990, the IPCC categorised the adaptation responses to sea level rise as protect, accommodate or retreat (Cisneros Linares, 2012;Gilbert & Vellinga, 1990). Protection is the construction of sea walls and other infrastructure to restrict the water level from going inland.…”

Section: Climate Change and Sea Level Risementioning

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Dreams from Kiribati: Maintaining identity and social resilience post-migration

Cameron¹

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<p>Climate change is widely regarded as a factor that contributes to migration through sea level rise and consequently Kiribati is expected to become uninhabitable and require mass migration. The question around how to resettle Kiribati’s population is without an answer. This thesis sought how the people of Kiribati envision their society will look, function and feel post-migration. This thesis used the strength based methodology Appreciative Inquiry to frame migration in a positive way to help get participants beyond the frightening idea of migrating and rather explore dreams for making migration work for the people of Kiribati. Fieldwork in Kiribati found participants’ dreams cover a wide array of needs such as identity, community connectedness, liveable income, recognised education and the ability to celebrate their culture. These dreams correlate strongly with the components of social resilience which indicates holistic adaptation planning is likely to be the most effective approach. Of all resilience influencing components, the relationship between culture and identity appears the most integral and if the I-Kiribati are able to reproduce their culture in ways that are less dependent on location, the migrating population will likely be more socially resilient when their location of residence changes.</p>

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Sea level rise impacts in coastal zones: Soft measures to cope with it

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

When the tide gets high: a review of adaptive responses to sea level rise and coastal flooding

When the tide gets high: a review of adaptive responses to sea level rise and coastal flooding

Planning for a different kind of sea change: lessons from Australia for sea level rise and coastal flooding

Dreams from Kiribati: Maintaining identity and social resilience post-migration

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