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CoastAdapt provides a compendium of case studies from Australia and abroad to illustrate what coastal practitioners and decision makers are doing to adapt to a changing climate. They describe real-world adaptation planning and actions and provide insights into lessons learned, effective strategies and potential pitfalls. Case studies in CoastAdapt are organised under 13 categories to help you find something to match your interests. There are brief snapshots, longer full case studies and engaging videos.
Data and information provision
A case study of professional development and capacity building in Tonga.
pdf 348.12 KB Government action
The snapshot provides an example of an initiative between the UK Government and the insurance industry, with the goal of enabling insurers to provide flood-prone households across the UK with affordable insurance cover
pdf 368.14 KB A US initiative set up in the 1960s to provide government-subsidised flood insurance to businesses and residences that adopt and enforce floodplain management strategies
pdf 771.83 KB The project in the UK explored strategies to address coastal erosion issues in the community of Happisburgh— including decaying coastal defence structures and vulnerable residential housing— and to test adaptation options including a rollback scheme
pdf 793.12 KB A description of the UK Government initiative set as a response to the threat of coastal retreat in the east of England. The aim was to allow local councils to explore new and innovative approaches to planning for and managing coastal change
pdf 915.56 KB Identifying and testing adaptation approaches
A form of planned retreat being successfully used in several locations in the United Kingdom, known as ‘managed realignment’, allows coastal zones to retain their natural ecosystems and associated ecosystem services while also providing certainty to local human settlements
pdf 1.19 MB Infrastructure
A desalination project in the US that features unique ownership, financing and operational arrangements in response to adapt to the increase in water demand and reduced freshwater resources related to climate impacts
pdf 347.04 KB Planning for adaptation
The community of Choiseul Bay township, located at the northern tip of the Solomon Islands within Choiseul Province, has prepared an integrated climate change risk and adaptation strategy that contemplates the relocation of the Province’s capital
pdf 651.58 KB 
