RESPONSE European Project Maps 2006-2009

Funded by the European Union’s LIFE-Environment Programme (DG Environment) for sustainable development

Responding to the risks from climate change on the coast

A three-year project launched in December 2006, and led by the Isle of Wight Council, this project’s multi-national partnership comprised nine local Partner organisations in Italy, France, Poland and the UK, including SCOPAC.

The RESPONSE Project demonstrated regional-scale mapping of coastal evolution and risks, taking account of the impacts of climate change. It also examined the current and future costs of coastal natural hazards, to encourage cost-effective solutions. Issues addressed by the RESPONSE Project include:

1) The impacts of climate change for coastal communities;
2) Erosion, landsliding and flooding hazards now and in the future;
3) Identifying areas of increasing risk;
4) Advising decision-makers on managing coastal and climate change.

More about the RESPONSE Project

Lead

Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment, UK

Partners

Nine Partner organisations in the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Poland have participated in the project:

Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment, Isle of Wight Council, (UK);
Instituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica (IRPI), Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche (CNR), Perugia (IT);
Bureau de Recherches Gèologiques et Minieres (FR);
Regione Marche, Autorità di Bacino Regionale (IT);
Provincia di Macerata (IT);
Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino (IT);
Scarborough Borough Council (UK);
Maritime Office in Gdynia (Urzad Morski w Gdyni), (PL);
SCOPAC Regional Coastal Group, central-southern coast of England, (UK)

Funding

The project was funded by the European Union’s LIFE-Environment Programme (DG Environment) for sustainable development.

Outputs

The project produced four key resources:

A Training Pack detailing the process of producing maps showing future coastal evolution and risk increase for decision markets;
A non-technical Good Practice Guide to assist end-users with best practice to reduce risks in developed coastal areas in a sustainable way;
A CD-Rom which presents information and background reports produced as part of the RESPONSE Project, including documents prepared by the Study Areas;
A 15-minute DVD providing a concise introduction to the issues of coastal risk management and climate change.

Project details and the outputs listed above are no longer available online

Whilst many of the project outputs are no longer available online, we are pleased to be able to offer copies of the maps produced by the project.

Maps download in PDF format and each will open in a new window; files range in size from 3Mb – 8Mb:

Map 1a. Coastal Landforms