Managed retreat; unpacking the ‘black box’ Webpage
- Author
- Ryan, E.
- Year
- 2018
- Journal / Source
- National Science Challenges
- Month
- June
- Series
- Resilience to Nature's Challenges
- Summary
- Low-lying coastal communities around New Zealand will need to start embracing managed retreat as climate change and sea-level rise continue to encroach on and erode our coasts. However, managed retreat remains a ‘black box’ in New Zealand, with few successful examples. The Resilience Challenge ‘Living at the Edge – Transforming the Margins’ Co-creation Laboratory is using insights gained from a critical review of international and national literature on managed retreat at the coast to start to unpack this ‘black box’.