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Mar 02 2010

UK Model for Sustainable Shoreline Management, Part 2

Sea Level Rise Adam Hosking Recognizing the potential for future sea level rise to significantly increase risks on the coast, UK government requires that up to 1 meter of sea level rise be accounted for in 100-year engineering design. (The UK sea level rise rate for the past 100 years has averaged 1 mm per [...]

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Feb 19 2009

Climate Change and the Coast, 2009: Recent Studies

 On January 16, 2009,  Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region -Atlantic coast of the United States  was published.  This report is one of 21 products to be developed for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) to assist policy makers in the United States to attempting to formulate effective strategies [...]

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