| Title | Changing coastlines |
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| Author | Lokman, K |
| Source | 2021.  Open Access |
| Links | Online - En ligne
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| Links | UBC Living Breakwaters
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| Year | 2021 |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Document | Web site |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | digital; on-line |
| File format | html; pdf |
| Province | British Columbia |
| NTS | 82E; 82F; 82G; 82J; 82K; 82L; 82M; 82N; 82O; 83C; 83D; 83E; 92; 93; 94; 102; 103; 104; 114 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -139.1667 -114.0000 60.0000 48.0000 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; marine geology; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; coastal management; Climate change; Climate change adaptation; Infrastructures; Innovation; Adaptation
measures and options; cumulative effects |
| Program | Climate Change Impacts and
Adaptation |
| Program | Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Climate Change Adaptation Program |
| Released | 2021 01 01 |
| Abstract | Rising sea levels and increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events due to climate change, damage coastal buildings, infrastructures, and beaches, impacting municipalities, First Nations,
and Provincial and Federal governments. In order to implement mitigation and adaptation strategies, Natural Resources Canada has provided generous support to the Changing Coastlines project to develop a layered approach to coastal adaptation that
incorporates living systems and enhances local and regional ecosystems and spatial quality while reducing flood/erosion risks and vulnerabilities caused by sea level rise.
Canada's coastline is the largest in the world measuring 243,042 km. In
western Canada, in coastal cities such as Vancouver, municipal and city governments have already begun to utilize adaptation strategies to protect and enhance coastal ecosystems, and existing coastal infrastructure. These strategies include a suite
of hard and soft conventional and unconventional approaches that are meant to reduce risk related to sea level rise (SLR) by integrating coastal ecosystem adaptive capacity with nature-based ecosystem, and governance solutions |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This website hosts the University of British Columbia's Changing Coastlines adaptation information portal, Changing Coastlines. Changing Coastlines
provides information on adaptation strategies and resources for planners, designers, and coastal managers. The portal provides adaptation information in the form of interactive maps, narrative sections, and visualizations of a wide range of flood
risk and sea-level rise adaptation approaches based on the idea of designing with nature. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 330144 |
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