Exploring options for retreat Technical Report
- Author
- Hurunui District Council
- Year
- 2022
- Publisher / Organisation
- Hurunui District Council
- Pages
- 32
- Summary
- In 2020 Hurunui District Council (HDC) started a project assessing the current coastal hazards that affect the Hurunui’s coastal settlements and how these hazards might change over a 30-, 50- and 100- year period. The project follows the dynamic adaptive pathways approach set out in the Ministry for the Environment’s Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance. 1 The project has four phases: • Phase 1 – What is happening? • Phase 2 – What matters most? • Phase 3 – What can we do about it? • Phase 4 – How can we implement the strategy? In 2022 HDC commenced Phase 3 of the project looking at the various adaptation options that were available to the individual communities. For some of the Hurunui’s coastal settlements managed retreat is a viable and realistic option.