Coastal Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Stephens, Sonia H.; DeLorme, Denise E.; Hagen, Scott C.

doi:10.1007/s00267-020-01315-3

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“…Few PPGIS' offer specific policy recommendations or are integrated early enough in the decision process to be influential [56]. A careful consideration of policy relevance and the utility to policy stakeholders needs to occur throughout the process [13,30]. We suggest that the process demonstrated here, and the vast body of the literature on PPGIS, can help to further the use and application of local public participation in the planning process for CVMA.…”

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“…The type of data collection and presentation presented here would help to facilitate a two-way discussion at the beginning of the planning process [12]. Other exemplary participatory CVMA work has been done designing interactive visualizations of vulnerability and sea level rise maps has been conducted along the Gulf of Mexico by Stephens and colleagues [13,29]. These authors worked directly with policy stakeholder groups to design their interactive visualization tools to best accommodate community planners and policy makers.…”

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“…Funding for sea level rise mitigation and planning initiatives has been a primary concern [97]. Natural resource planners anticipate some challenges in public participation and possible conflict with plans to manage coastal areas for sea level rise [13]. This is encouraging, as planners and stakeholders engage with the public to emphasize plans to counter sea level rise impacts to conserve habitats.…”

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“…Planners need to understand how decisions about the built and natural environment affect vulnerability of these resources to coastal changes and how coastal changes are in turn influenced by conservation and development decisions. Planning for sea level rise and resilience to subsequent impacts has become an important component of coastal natural resource management [11][12][13][14].…”

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“…The level of stakeholder participation can vary from coordination to collaboration through to joint actions (Basco-Carrera). It can be particularly beneficial to capture these stakeholder preferences and landscape values spatially to facilitate their comparison with other spatial management information such as biological and ecological data and inundated areas based on sea level rise projections [13,[46][47][48][49]. Frequent constraints to collecting stakeholder participation include a lack of time, money, expertise, and the relevance and timeliness of the information [7].…”

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The U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast has a long history of intense and varied development, from energy infrastructure and seaports to vacation homes and tourism. Coastal populations and development are growing. Concurrently, global climate change will influence sea level rise, resulting in increased flooding, storm surge, and coastal erosion. Regional planners must prepare for sea level rise and develop adaptive solutions to maximize resiliency. Comprehensive coastal vulnerability mapping assessments (CVMA) can integrate social, economic, and physical vulnerability with spatial analysis of natural hazards for local place-based investigations. Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) are a potentially important tool for the spatial collection of stakeholder knowledge for CVMA. The objective of this study was to assess the locations of a range of landscape values, ecosystem services, and development preferences held and identified by the general public using PPGIS to determine if those valued locations are vulnerable to sea level rise. We found that PPGIS can be used to map a wide variety of landscape values and that they can be used to assess vulnerability to sea level rise. We conclude with a discussion on how to integrate PPGIS into participatory CVMA for sea level rise planning.

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Adapting to sea level rise: participatory, solution-oriented policy tools in vulnerable Mediterranean areas

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Loizides³

et al. 2023

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The coasts of the Mediterranean basin are exposed to the ongoing effects of climate change and anthropogenic pressure. Low elevated coastal plains, river deltas, lagoons and reclamation areas are experiencing beach retreat, coastal erosion and marine flooding. This makes them particularly vulnerable to sea level rise (SLR), which is expected to increase up to 1 m by 2100 AD, according to the projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In this study, selected stakeholders from four Mediterranean coastal areas that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of SLR have been engaged through a structured participatory process for the development of solution-oriented, case-specific and site-specific Policy Tools to address SLR. The developed Policy Tools for the Venice Lagoon, the Metaponto reclamation area and the Basento river mouth, in Italy, the Ebro River Delta in Spain, and the coastal plain of Chalastra, near the Axios River Delta, in Greece, contain relevant, effective and implementable actions stemming from stakeholder interaction and consensus building. The interconnected stakeholder engagement steps employed in this study identified relevant issues that should be considered when defining SLR adaptation policies to bridge knowledge and perception gaps, facilitate knowledge exchange and foster social learning through structured science communication on SLR. This participatory stakeholder process can lay the foundations for more extensive participation in public processes through which the resulting Policy Tools can materialise into collectively accepted, concrete actions to help vulnerable areas adapt to the expected SLR and consequent coastal hazards by the end of this century.

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Sea level rise and extreme events along the Mediterranean coasts: the case of Venice and the awareness of local population, stakeholders and policy makers

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Sea level rise (SLR) is among the major climate change effects threating the coasts of the Mediterranean basin, which are increasingly exposed to coastal flooding, especially along the low lying coastal plains, river deltas, lagoons and reclamation areas. Coastal erosion, beach retreat and marine flooding are already causing unprecedented environmental and socio-economic impacts on coastal populations. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) these effects are expected to worsen by 2100 and beyond with a projected global SLR up to about 1 m above the current level. This study provides an overview of the Mediterranean basin, focusing on the vulnerable city of Venice, which is particularly exposed to marine flooding due to SLR and land subsidence. We show the current and future sea level trend as well as a flooding scenarios in the absence of the Experimental Electromechanical Module (MoSE), which is protecting the city of Venice since 2020. To understand the awareness of citizens in Venice to address SLR, we have engaged a group of stakeholders through a structured participatory process to develop solution-oriented, case-specific and site-specific Policy Tools. Our results show that the Policy Tools contain relevant, effective and implementable actions stemming from stakeholder interaction and consensus building, identifying relevant issues that should be considered for SLR adaptation policies. A more extensive participation in public processes is required to materialize the Policy Tools into concrete actions to help vulnerable areas adapt to the expected SLR by the end of this century.

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Coastal Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

Using Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) to Identify Valued Landscapes Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

Using Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) to Identify Valued Landscapes Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

Adapting to sea level rise: participatory, solution-oriented policy tools in vulnerable Mediterranean areas

Sea level rise and extreme events along the Mediterranean coasts: the case of Venice and the awareness of local population, stakeholders and policy makers

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