National Science Challenges - Coastal Theme Webpage
- Year
- 2018
- Publisher / Organisation
- Resilience to Nature's Challenges/Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
- Keywords
- sea-level, project, risk, hazard, flooding, erosion, resilience
- Summary
- Incremental sea-level rise and changing wave patterns will fundamentally re-shape our coastlines and re-define New Zealand’s future coastal hazard and risk. We will improve the knowledge of coastal risk to the combined effect of sea level rise, flooding, and erosion around New Zealand to underpin a national resilience coastal strategy. Working closely with end-users, we will identify hotspots of coastal risk (current and future) and provide integrated scientific datasets to underpin robust decision-making. From this, we will develop a new suite of technical guidelines to assist management agencies to cope with coastal adaptation. Through timely assessment of New Zealand’s coastal erosion and flooding/inundation risk, along with evaluation of the most useful mitigation options, this theme will support better targeting of adaptation plans, reducing the costs of hazard exposure. Three complementary research projects underlie the Coastal theme.