What is coastal squeeze?
This project re-defined what causes ‘coastal squeeze’ and assessed the best way of managing its past and future impacts.
Documents
What is coastal squeeze? webinar (Youtube)
The coastal squeeze: lets loosen things up podcast is available on Jacobs website. The podcast was recorded on 9 November 2021.
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Details
The purpose of this project was to better define and understand what causes ‘coastal squeeze’ as well as to assess the best way of managing its past and future impacts.
Coastal squeeze is now defined as ‘the loss of natural habitats or deterioration of their quality arising from anthropogenic structures or actions, preventing the landward transgression of those habitats that would otherwise naturally occur in response to sea level rise in conjunction with other coastal processes. Coastal squeeze affects habitat on the seaward side of existing structures.’
Updates to this page
Published 26 February 2021Last updated 15 November 2021 + show all updates
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Link to a podcast discussing coastal squeeze has been added to the documents section. It features the project team that created the report.
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