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E: Impact of mitigation and adaptation on coasts in the 21st Century 

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E: Impact of mitigation and adaptation on coasts in the 21st Century 

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E: Met Office, Mitigation and Adaptation in Decision Making 

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E: Met Office, Mitigation and Adaptation in Decision Making 

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E: IPCC Links between Mitigation and Adaptation in Coasts 

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E: IPCC Links between Mitigation and Adaptation in Coasts 

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6.6.5 The links between adaptation and mitigation in coastal and low-lying areas - AR4 WGII Chapter 6: Coastal Systems and Low-Lying Areas

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The iCOASST project aims to improve this situation by bringing together formalised knowledge of coastal systems with quantified broad-scale analysis, with the systems insights from a new generation of reduced complexity models. This has the potential to deliver long-term coastal engineering and management solutions, which are relevant to coastal managers.

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On a sunny June day, Weymouth's esplanade is in full British seaside resort swing. Two hot donkeys sashay along the beach carrying their small, squealing passengers, and there is a long queue outside Rossi's ice cream parlour. A "wonderful place - wonderful - a great salt sheening sea bending into the land like a bow", wrote Thomas Hardy, who lived here.

The townhouse hotels and B&Bs on the faded Georgian seafront are doing a decent trade and the harbour is picturesque with its boats and bars. But immediately behind the seafront the gift shops and cafes are interspersed with betting and pawn shops and overhung with To Let signs. Deeper into the town and the Littlemoor housing estate is among the most deprived in Europe, directly butted up against the more affluent Preston.

Office for National Statistics figures released on Friday show schoolchildren in coastal towns falling dramatically behind their counterparts in the inner cities in terms of GCSE results, echoing the comments last week by the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, that aspiration and achievement was now a major issue in seaside towns.

Equality watchdogs including Alan Milburn's Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission are also issuing dire warnings that a lack of immigration and investment, as well as the growing wealth gap and the dominance of London as an economic hub, are creating a crisis.

Weymouth's mounting problems are replicated around the country's coastline, from Cornwall to Norfolk and beyond, where often affluent facades mask poverty and stagnation.

"Enter this part of Dorset and you leave the 21st century behind. If you are interested in culture or remotely artistic, this is a wasteland," says Charlotte Storey, former actress and teacher, who runs Aspire, a successful small charity helping young people find their way into further education and employment.

"It's a generation behind. A prison of passion, a graveyard of ambition. My advice to young people would be go east, get out. People think 'oh, wealthy Dorset', and parts of it are, but behind that, behind the honey-coloured cottages that are the second homes of the Londoners, there is mass deprivation.

"Weymouth has the highest rates of teenage pregnancies in the country. Drug use is rife. If you're a young person, you leave school and you can maybe get work from June to September, but that's it. The average income around here is £12,000 to £15,000."

Unemployment is at less than 3%, but half of those in work have part-time jobs and previous UK-wide studies suggest many people in part-time work would like to get full-time jobs.

Just over 21% of Weymouth's adult population need benefits to help with housing costs. Almost a quarter of households have no car and locals complain the bus services have been cut to the bone. "Young people who want to go to college can't get there because of the buses. They drop out," says Storey. "They don't sign on the dole because you have to get into the dole office in the major towns and they use up all their jobseekers' allowance on the bus fares and if you're late you get your payment suspended for six months. So what is the point? They are off the radar.

"There was a scheme run briefly to loan scooters to get kids to college, but they weren't allowing enough petrol and were breaking down halfway home. It was ludicrously bad. If we gave the bus passes that so many wealthier pensioners have and don't use to these young people, we could really make a difference.

"There are so many schemes jumping on the funding bandwagon but not actually helping. You can go in Weymouth and there are probably dozens of organisations who will help with your CV and pass you on," she adds. "And that's worth around £200 to that agency but has done nothing to tackle the root cause of why you can't get a job.

"That duplication of services is a scandal. There's so much money being made in passing these young people around but achieving nothing. You could rub out most of them and set up some services that actually see the job through with a young person.

"The rural isolation and low wages mean schools can't get the great teachers, the expectations of parents are so low, or non-existent. There is no motorway, the train to London is expensive and take three hours; many of the young people I've worked with have never been. This part of Dorset is locked in on itself."

These views are familiar to Rob Jones, deputy principal of Weymouth College. The college has been hauling itself back from the brink and working hard to forge links with local industry and employers. Its exam results and retention rates for students are impressively high despite all the challenges and he roundly disputes that his students have no aspiration.

"This is a beautiful place to live, but it has its challenges. Transport is a big issue - we try to run as many minibuses as we can - and we'd like to have outreach provision in the more deprived areas like Littlemoor and Portland.

"But I'd be lying if I didn't say it's hard, with further education being enormously financially squeezed year on year, and I've given up complaining about the lack of decent careers advice available for young people. But we can't afford to sit back and moan, we have to get on and do the very best we can.

"And that means engaging with local employers, and we're starting more apprenticeships every year, getting students employability skills as well as qualifications. Helping them understand what is out there and what they can do," he says. "For example, we have a nuclear testing facility up the road here being decommissioned. Students were sceptical about that offering any career opportunities, but they came in and pointed out that decommissioning is a new industry in itself - it's happening here, Canada, France - so they would have a portable skill, a saleable asset. They hadn't seen it that way.

"In September, the chef Mark Hix is opening a Hix Academy here, so we're taking a standard catering course and making it something special. We're putting in as much effort as we possibly can to position ourselves as an inclusive but high-performing college at the heart of a community."

One of the UK's first seaside resorts, made fashionable by the patronage of George III from 1789 to 1805 and made fiction by Hardy at the turn of the 20th century - he renamed the town Budmouth Regis - Weymouth was once a thriving port town where merchants made fortunes from the nearby Portland quarries.

Local author Sean Geraghty has written about a Dorset as deeply ingrained with poverty and social inequality as it was in Hardy's day. His latest book is The Borassic Coast, a play on the area's tourism brand, "the Jurassic coast", and the rhyming slang for being broke.

Geraghty lives in nearby Bridport. He says he has known people move to the area from London to give their children the "idyllic Farrow and Ball-coloured life" only to move back. "They think their kids won't be so streetwise as in the city, and then they realise how rife heroin is and they are off back to the urban environment where their kids can be safe.

"But for young people from here, London is a far-off principality that they have no hope or desire to get to. This is a hinterland - no buses, empty homes, polarised between rich and poor, feudal communities.

"You can barely get a mobile signal, never mind broadband. In the 80s the village schools closed down, in the 90s we lost things like cricket grounds, then it was the shops and petrol stations that went. Now it's the buses. We're knee-deep in weekend dog walkers, but nothing else."

On Weymouth seafront, in the town's pavilion - which is itself threatened with closure and being run by volunteers - a group of travel and tourism students from Weymouth College have been putting on a charity fundraiser as part of their coursework - a seaside traditional day of bingo and a talent show.

They are far from lacking in ambition and most already have part-time jobs. Of the 25 on the course, six will go to university next year.

Asked if they intend to stay in Weymouth, Tuesday Hilton, 20, and Shona Tett, 18, look horrified. "God, no. I'm going to London," says Tett. "There's no jobs here and it's a bit grim. There's nothing to do. I've got a part-time job, but I have to get one bus for half an hour and then walk for half an hour to get there. A lot of my schoolfriends are staying; they are just happy like that."

Her friend Georgina Pope, 18, is one. "I like it here," she says. "I like my creature comforts. I know a lot of people who can't get a job, but I've got a part-time job. It is hard to find full-time work and the bus fares are high, you go to work and half the money is gone on the bus. But I do love it. I'm from here, why would I leave?"
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Sun, sand and inequality: why the British seaside towns are losing out

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Tracy McVeigh: Holiday resorts - and not inner cities - were identified last week as centres of low ambition and limited opportunity. Beyond the beach, Weymouth is a place beset by low wages, lack of transport, isolation and poverty of aspiration

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The Blue New Deal: promoting good jobs and economic sustainability for coastal communities across the UK through a healthy marine environment

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C: NEF, Revitalising Coastal Economies  

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C: NEF, Revitalising Coastal Economies  

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Building a new economy where people really take control

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B: Eurosion, Living sustainably with coastal erosion 

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B: Eurosion, Living sustainably with coastal erosion 

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View our proven Love your Coast and Love your Water presentations, delivered to 193,370 people since our establishment in 2009. If you would like to learn from the public speaking, presentation delivery and event management skills that our team has honed, then please register for our training workshops by clicking here.

Our 'Love your Coast' litter-awareness presentation introduces the effects of rubbish on the marine environment, and teaches simple steps we can all make to prevent litter from getting to the coast in the first place.

Browse through the slides from the full presentation below, expand it to see the presentation fullscreen, or click on the gear icon to download a copy to your computer for use offline.

Our 'Love your Water' freshwater restoration presentation discusses the impacts of human actions on our waterways, and teaches the simple, everyday things we can do to improve the quality of our streams, rivers and lakes.

Browse through the slides from the full presentation below, expand it to see the presentation fullscreen, or click on the gear icon to download a copy to your computer for use offline.

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The paper "Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems" by Julia Jackley, Lindsay Gardner, Audrey Djunaedi and Anne Salomon has been awarded the Best Paper of 2016 in Ecology & Society.

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A: Natural resilience of coastal systems 

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A: Natural resilience of coastal systems 

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A: What is resilience and how to conduct an assessment

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A: What is resilience and how to conduct an assessment

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Resilience is the long-term capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop and adapt, yet remain within critical thresholds. The Arctic Resilience Report is a science-based assessment of the resilience of linked human and environmental systems in the Arctic region.

Understanding resilience

Ecosystems, social systems and social-ecological systems (SES) are self-organising systems - and the ecological and social domains are strongly interlinked. Systems can withstand changes and shocks and still recover, but only up to certain limits. Beyond those limits, they may be permanently altered and no longer function as they did.

Drivers of change exist on different scales: local, regional, pan-Arctic and global, and they also interact across scales. For instance, social changes interact with changes in physical environment and ecosystems. The interactions can have greater impact on valued ecosystem services than each driver in itself.

Ball-in-basin illustration of resilience

A stable, resilient system can cope with shocks and disturbances and keep its identity.

In an unstable system, a small disturbance can push the ball over a threshold.

Environmental and social changes can make a system less resilient.

Conducting a resilience assessment

Some large changes are already occurring in the Arctic and more are likely. Many of these will affect the resilience of social-ecological systems in the Arctic, which increases the likelihood of crossing thresholds if the system is exposed to a shock, for instance an oil spill.

A resilience assessment prepares us for these changes by identifying potential for large shifts in ecosystems services that affect human well-being. Often more than one driver of change is at play and a resilience assessment includes analysing their interactions and their consequences - for example how climate change and its impacts interact with social changes.

A resilience analysis can also support ongoing efforts to further develop ecosystem-based management in the Arctic by providing scientifically based scenarios of possible futures.

The Arctic Resilience Report builds on and extends the methodology of the Resilience Assessment workbook.

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Resilience is the long-term capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop and adapt, yet remain within critical thresholds. The Arctic Resilience Report is a science-based assessment of the resilience of linked human and environmental systems in the Arctic region.

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We consistently apply a systems approach to the examination of sustainable development in the coastal zone. This complex system is viewed and evaluated as comprising three sub-systems: environment and resources, economic development, and society. A sustainability indicator system based on these three sub-systems can be produced to evaluate the nature and impact of development in the coastal zone.

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A: How resilient is your coastal community 

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A: How resilient is your coastal community 

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North West England Shoreline Management Plan

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North West England Shoreline Management Plan

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1965 and 2014 land use along UK's coastline

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Birds eye view video of Morecambe sea front

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Birds eye view video of Morecambe sea front

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Shows seafront land uses, fishtail groynes and other coastal defences

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MORECAMBE SEA FRONT 2014 AS YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.(Birds eye View)

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Journal - Impacts of Fish Tail Groynes in Morecambe Bay

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Journal - Impacts of Fish Tail Groynes in Morecambe Bay

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A brief history of development, flooding and coastal management.

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 Morecambe Coastal  Works History 1989-2007

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 Morecambe Coastal  Works History 1989-2007

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Interactive Map from EA of Flooding and Coastal work ongoing at the moment.

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Interactive Map from EA of Flooding and Coastal work ongoing at the moment.

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A google map (GIS) with information of work that is happening, planned and being considered. Included is the cost of scheme and houses protected

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Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Investment Programme (England) 2015 - 2021 - Google My Maps

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This map illustrates the proposed Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management capital investment programme over a six year period, starting from April 2015. The list of schemes and the accompanying data are based on information correct at the time of publishing and are subject to change.

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2010 UK coastal regeneration handbook

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Projections of coastal flooding as a result of sea level rise

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Projections of coastal flooding as a result of sea level rise

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Dynamic maps of sea level rise. Will global warming affect you?

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This is a new service - your beta feedback will help us to improve it. Use this service to find out which flood zone a location is in, as part of land use planning If you're planning a development you may need to undertake a more detailed flood risk assessment You will need the postcode, place, national grid reference (NGR) or easting and northing co-ordinates for the location you want to know about.

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Real Time Data (including wave direction and height 

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Real Time Data (including wave direction and height 

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Channel Coastal Observatory Real time data

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Alerts system - receive custom alerts from the observatory.