Research to assess the economics of coastal change management in England and to determine potential adaptation pathways for a sample of exposed communities

The Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is the Government's statutory advisers on preparing for climate change. One of the primary risks from climate change relates to sea level rise and the consequential increases in the chance of coastal flooding and the rate of coastal erosion to vulnerable English coastlines (ASC 2016). The combined effects of erosion and coastal flooding are considered together in this specification as 'coastal change'. A series of Shoreline Management Plans...