Coastal Zone Managment (Sea Level Rise)

Sea Level Rise and the National Trust

Geomorphic changes to our coastal environment are inevitable. For an in-detail and informative article by Spencer Weart go here.
With this change in mind, stakeholders in the marine environment have to plan for future changes and adaptations to morph with the changes ahead.

“To help plan for the future the
Trust commissioned research to
assess how the coastline is likely to
change over the next 100 years.
The results suggest that many of the
Trust’s important sites are at risk from
coastal erosion and flooding”
(Shifting Shores: Living with a changing coastline, The National Trust 2005)

Places such as Mullion Harbour in Cornwall are such places under threat. This old and beautiful harbour, which forms part of the village of mullion is expected to be gone within the next couple of hundred years or less.

So what is to be done about it? In short, nothing!

The Environment Agency have installed operations in place to asses the damage (go here), but the real adaptation comes in the form of societies ability to relax in the way of un-controllable forces.
Go and have a look here to see where your house will be in a few years.

But it’s not all that bad. As one thing is removed, another is created.
Assessing the full damage of climate change and sea level rise, will only really be possible when the sea starts to drop. Until then, society has to develop the tools to adapt to changes in the environment, and install operations to minimise damage.

For a fuller more detailed analysis go to “Or Go Buy a Snorkel” down this page.

For a fuller more detailed analysis, go to “Or Go Buy a Snorkel” down this page.
To see Mullion Harbours reaction to the changes ahead, go here.