The Impact of Climate Change on Future Land-Use in a Coastal Zone Planning Context

  • Authors:

  • Henning Sten Hansen

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Development and Planning National Environmental Research Institute, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, DK-9200

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA '08 Proceeding sof the international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Climate change has received much attention during the last decennium and especially various mitigation and adaptation strategies. Particularly the coastal zone will feel the consequences of climate change and the associated effects like sea level rise, increased storminess and flooding. Thus there is an urgent need for local and regional spatial planners to include climate change in their planning efforts. Using modelling and simulation, we can increase our understanding of the future land-use system under influence of a changing climate and accordingly reduce uncertainty concerning decisions. The current paper describes how land-use simulations combined with climate change scenarios can facilitate the definition of adaptation strategies to counteract the consequences of potential climate changes.