Coastal engineering
Rising Seas and Shifting Sands: Combining Natural and Grey Infrastructure to Protect Canada’s Coastal Communities
Learn how Canada can scale-up the use of nature-based solutions, in tandem with grey infrastructure, to protect coastal communities from flooding and erosion.
Building with Nature in Indonesia – reaching scale for coastal resilience
Northern Java’s deltaic shorelines suffer from land subsidence and severe erosion, in some places more than three kilometers of land has already been taken by the sea. The "Building with Nature" approach combines nature based solutions, such as mangrove restoration, with hard-engineering techniques to restrore mangrove coastlines that reduce flood risk, erosion and saline intrusion and may be able to adapt to sea level rise.
Morocco: Sea-Level Rise and Impacts in Africa, 2000 to 2100. Application of the DIVA model to Africa.
Atlantic coast in Morocco. Image: © kerdowney.com/ Impact of sea level rise in Morocco Morocco’s 3,500km coast crosses temperate, semi-arid...
Mauritius : Sea-Level Rise and Impacts in Africa, 2000 to 2100. Application of the DIVA model to Africa.
Coastline in Mauritius. Image: © mauritius-islander.com/ Impacts of sea-level rise in Mauritius The Republic of Mauritius is a group of...
Lessons learned from Colombia NCAP Project
This article summarises the main lessons learnt from the Colombia NAP project.
CIRCE case study on the impact of climate change on Cullera Bay
Cullera Bay is an important habitat for seagrass, scallops, clams and commercial off-shore fish, as well as an important recreational...