Managed Retreat Components and Costing in a Coastal Setting Thesis
- Author
- Olufson, Samuel
- Year
- 2019
- Publisher / Organisation
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Pages
- 141+xi
- Keywords
- sea-level rise, retreat, adaptation, strategy, framework
- Summary
- This thesis aims to address this gap in the literature by answering the following three questions: (1) what are the issues related to implementing managed retreat as an adaptation strategy in coastal areas, now, and moving into the future?; (2) what are the components of managed retreat?; and (3) what framework could be developed for costing managed retreat?