Strategies for adaption to sea level rise : report of the Coastal Zone Management Subgroup

The Coastal Zone Management Subgroup had the task to provide information and recommendations to national and international policy centres, enabling decision making on: coastal zone management strategies for the next 10-20 years, and long term policies dealing with limitation and/or adaption with respect to climate change and sea level rise. Two workshops were held (in Miami, Nov. 1989, and in Perth, Febr. 1990) to generate information on available response options and their environmental, economic, social, cultural, legal, institutional and financial implications. The adaptive options for coastal areas are catagorized in this report as retreat, accomodationand protection. In the appendices are included information on techniques and practices, including laws and policies for coastal management, and a global estimate of the costs of basic measures to protect populated coastal areas against a one meter sea level rise.