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Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volume 37, 2012

Wicked Challenges at Land's End: Managing Coastal Vulnerability Under Climate Change

Abstract

With continuing influx of large numbers of people into coastal regions, human stresses on coastal ecosystems and resources are growing at the same time that climate variability and change and associated consequences in the marine environment are making coastal areas less secure for human habitation. The article reviews both climatic and nonclimatic drivers of the growing stresses on coastal natural and human systems, painting a picture of the mostly harmful impacts that result and the interactive and systemic challenges coastal managers face in managing these growing risks. Although adaptive responses are beginning to emerge, the adaptation challenge is enormous and requires not just incremental but also transformative changes. At the same time, such “wicked” problems, by definition, defy all-encompassing, definitive, and final solutions; instead, temporary best solutions will have to be sought in the context of an iterative, deliberately learning-oriented risk management framework.

Keyword(s): adaptation, extreme events, nonclimatic stressors, sea-level rise, transformative change, wicked problems
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Wicked Challenges at Land's End: Managing Coastal Vulnerability Under Climate Change
Annual Review of Environment and Resources 37, 51 (2012); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-021611-135158
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