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Climate change and coastal management decisions: insights from Christchurch Bay, UK

Climate change and coastal management decisions: insights from Christchurch Bay, UK
Climate change and coastal management decisions: insights from Christchurch Bay, UK
The integration of climate change adaptation considerations into management of the coast poses major challenges for decision makers. This article reports on a case study undertaken in Christchurch Bay, UK, examining local capacity for strategic response to climate risks, with a particular focus on issues surrounding coastal defense. Drawing primarily on qualitative research with local and regional stakeholders, the analysis identifies fundamental disjunctures between generic concerns over climate change and the adaptive capacity of local management institutions. Closely linked with issues of scale, the problems highlighted here are likely to have broad and continuing relevance for future coastal management elsewhere.
0892-0753
255-270
Few, Roger
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Brown, Katrina
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Tompkins, Emma L.
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Few, Roger
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Brown, Katrina
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Tompkins, Emma L.
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Few, Roger, Brown, Katrina and Tompkins, Emma L. (2007) Climate change and coastal management decisions: insights from Christchurch Bay, UK. Coastal Management, 35 (2-3), 255-270. (doi:10.1080/08920750601042328).

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The integration of climate change adaptation considerations into management of the coast poses major challenges for decision makers. This article reports on a case study undertaken in Christchurch Bay, UK, examining local capacity for strategic response to climate risks, with a particular focus on issues surrounding coastal defense. Drawing primarily on qualitative research with local and regional stakeholders, the analysis identifies fundamental disjunctures between generic concerns over climate change and the adaptive capacity of local management institutions. Closely linked with issues of scale, the problems highlighted here are likely to have broad and continuing relevance for future coastal management elsewhere.

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Published date: 2007
Organisations: Global Env Change & Earth Observation

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Local EPrints ID: 202847
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/202847
ISSN: 0892-0753
PURE UUID: 6a4d65ad-7c32-4746-8e22-a2398f92f1ee
ORCID for Emma L. Tompkins: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4825-9797

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:39

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Author: Roger Few
Author: Katrina Brown

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