Coastal Vulnerability and the Implications of Sea-Level Rise for Ireland

Devoy, R. J. N.

doi:10.2112/07a-0007.1

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“…For example, the main responsibility of coastal defence lies with the national government in the Netherlands (VanKoningsveld et al 2008), state governments in Germany (Sterr 2008) and counties in Ireland (Devoy 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Planning for future sea-level rise in Swedish municipalities

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A warmer climate leads to rising sea levels. Despite uncertainties about how rapid and substantial future sea-level rise (SLR) will be, society needs to prepare and adapt. This study examines the state of planning for future SLR in Sweden by surveying 33 coastal municipalities in southern Sweden and interviewing local, regional and national authorities with relevant accountability. The results reveal that there are considerable gaps in current planning for SLR. Almost one-third of municipalities lack guiding planning documents for SLR, and more than two-thirds do not discuss SLR beyond 2100. We argue that the prevailing uncertainty and ambiguity in assessments of future SLR is problematic within a traditional "predict-then-act" paradigm, and that robust approaches, such as scenario planning, can reduce many of these problems.

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Planning for future sea-level rise in Swedish municipalities

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“…volcanic) present the maximum resilience (Viles and Spencer, 1995), whilst fine sandy coasts show the maximum vulnerability and coarse clastic sedimentary settings (e.g. cobble or gravel dominated systems) characterise an intermediate situation (Orford et al, 1996;Duffy and Devoy, 1999;Devoy, 2008).…”

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“…Coasts (globally) are recording increasing changes in their functioning and vulnerability under a range of environmental drivers (Carter and Woodroffe, 1994;Devoy, 2008Devoy, , 2015bCooper and Cummins, 2009;Masselink et al, 2011). These include changes in sea-level rise (SLR) and associated marine flooding (Fang et al, 2014), changes in wave climate regimes , in river liquid discharges (Alfieri et al, 2015) and modified sediments fluxes .…”

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“…Under future impacts of accelerated SLR, storminess and increased coastal erosion rates, these systems are likely to undergo significant changes in structure and position, as part of a general coastal squeeze (Cooper and Pilkey, 2012). Contrasting examples of approaches in dealing with the management of these systems exist in Ireland, emphasising the difficulties in finding management techniques acceptable at local community levels, but also consistent with good coastal governance and 'best practice' management options (Cooper and Cummins, 2009;Devoy, 2008;Gault et al, 2007;Gray et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This people-attraction factor is of particular importance now, due to the vulnerability of these environments to coastal flooding, erosion and cliffing-slope instability and collapse (Devoy, 1992(Devoy, , 2008KCC, 2001;O'Connor et al, 2010). The consequences of this vulnerability for investment have been costly, in terms of demands for increased coastal protection works and earlier in the 19th and 20th Centuries in extensive land reclamation schemes (Duffy and Devoy, 1999).…”

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