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All roads lead to retreat: adapting to sea level rise using a trigger-based pathway
As coastal communities all over the world deal with the consequences of rising sea-level and more intense storm events, planners and managers continue to grapple with the optimal policy approach to managing increasing risks to coastal ecosystems, people and property.
The impact of rising sea levels and coastal erosion will see shorelines retreat steadily and provide major challenges for planning authorities, according to a research that involved The University of Western Australia, and was contracted to GHD consultancy firm.
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Why does Europe need to limit climate change and adapt to its impacts?
Europe’s many regions are expected to face worsening impacts of climate change over the next decades. A compilation of several existing maps published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) illustrates how drought, heavy rain and flooding, forest fires and sea-level rise could affect some selected regions in Europe, including Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia, Brittany and Venice.
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Where did this refuse come from? Marine anthropogenic litter on a remote island of the Colombian Caribbean sea
This is one of the recent studies by CCMS AC Member Prof. Nelson Rangel-Buitrago, in co-authorship with Adriana Gracia, Anubis VelezMendoza, Alexander Carvajal-Florián, Lilibeth Mojica-Martinez Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia; and William J. Neal Department of Geology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan.
Originally published in Elsevier – Marine Pollution Bulletin, December 2019, 110611. Text and image courtesy of © Nelson Rangel-Buitrago et al.
Why does Europe need to limit climate change and adapt to its impacts?
Europe’s many regions are expected to face worsening impacts of climate change over the next decades. A compilation of several existing maps published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) today illustrates how drought, heavy rain and flooding, forest fires and sea-level rise could affect some selected regions in Europe, including Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia, Brittany and Venice.
The increased exposure to climate related hazards will differ from region to region across Europe, according to the EEA story map. The background briefing shows examples of selected risks across Europe. It stresses the important role of limiting climate change to avoid the worst impacts as well as the key role of adaptation and resilience amid new EU plans under the European Green Deal to present for a new, more ambitious EU adaptation strategy.
Read more: Why does Europe need to limit climate change and adapt to its impacts?