Coastal geography

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.

In response to sea-level rise, managed coastal realignment was undertaken in Nigg Bay, Scotland, allowing the saltmarsh to re-establish naturally.

Coast of Senegal, south of Saint-Louis. Image: ©panoramio.com Impacts of sea-level rise in Senegal Senegal has a coast of 2,065km...

View of Lagos. Image ©http://coastalcare.org/ Impacts of sea-level rise in Nigeria Nigeria’s coast is 850km long and comprises (from west...

Atlantic coast in Morocco. Image: © kerdowney.com/ Impact of sea level rise in Morocco Morocco’s 3,500km coast crosses temperate, semi-arid...

Coastline in Mauritius. Image: © mauritius-islander.com/ Impacts of sea-level rise in Mauritius The Republic of Mauritius is a group of...

The World Bank has approved a US$5.2 million pilot project to apply integrated coastal zone management in the coasts of...

This article summarises the main lessons learnt from the Colombia NAP project.

Adaptation Measures The impact assessments and scenarios developed in the context of this project all confirm the findings and conclusions...

Cullera Bay is an important habitat for seagrass, scallops, clams and commercial off-shore fish, as well as an important recreational...