Coastal monitoring and historical coastal change

We will review and collate historical coastal change evidence and create a methodological framework to document historical coastal change.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme
• Published: 29 June 2021

• Category: Understanding risks from all sources of flooding
• Topics: Adaptation, Big data, Coast, Coastal erosion, Communicating risk
• Project status: Ongoing
• Project code: FD2724
• Date of start: 24 March 2021

Documents

The published reports will be available here once the project has completed.

Expected completion date is December 2022.

Details

This project has three tasks:

Task 1: Undertake a Rapid Evidence Assessment to review the evidence available on historic coastal change and consolidate this data/information in one place. This data is to include the natural environment, built environment and communities.

Task 2: Review, summarise and rank the various coastal monitoring techniques and technologies that are available to document historical coastal change, and outline the most appropriate data collection methodologies that can systematically and routinely assess both historical and contemporaneous coastal change.

Task 3: Develop a methodology to document historical coastal change. This task consists of three sub-tasks:

a) Review how historical coastal change can be presented illustratively, for example using infographics.

b) Produce an adaptable methodology, on the basis of Task 2 ranking outcomes, that is most suitable to determine historical coastal change along the dynamic English and Welsh coastlines.

c) Undertake a pilot demonstrating technique in at least two small areas subject to rapid change with rural and urban characteristics.

Published 29 June 2021