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Safecoast synthesis report 2008 

• Final Synthesis Report 2008   (complete)   

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Coastal risk management: The present context
• Chapter 3: Developments driving future coastal risks
• Chapter 4: Risk assessment in coastal management
• Chapter 5: Strategy development to manage coastal risks
• Chapter 6: Main findings and recommendations
• Annexes and acknowledgements

Safecoast action reports 2006 - 2008 

• Action 1: Quick scan climate change scenarios 
• Action 1: Sketches of spatial and economical scenarios
• Action 1: Case study; Vulnerability of Central Holland  
• Action 1: Elevation map North Sea Region: A3 or A1
• Action 2: The informed society
• Action 2: The exhibition report
• Action 3A: Trends in flood risks Annexes   Maps 
• Action 3B: Comparison between flood risk methodologies
• Action 3B/4: Monitoring, understanding and blocking sea-level rise 
• Action 4: Towards the Flanders Master Plan for coastal safety
• Action 5A: Consequence of climate change along the Danish coasts
• Action 5A: The coastal erosion atlas of Denmark 
• Action 5B: Flood risk assessments in Lower Saxony  Annexes (1) (2)  
• Action 6: Quick scan climate change adaptation    

Safecoast workshop reports

• Safecoast workshop 1 report The Hague (NL)    
• Safecoast workshop 2 report Oostende (BE)    
• Safecoast workshop 3 report Amsterdam (NL)
• Safecoast workshop 4 report Aabenraa (DK)  
• Field trip 'Geltinger Birk' (DE)

Final conference 'Risk meets Crisis', May 21/22 Scheveningen, NL

• Newsletter Final Conference     
• Information market posters

Speeches and presentations:
• Queen’s Commissioner of the province of Zeeland, Mrs. K.M.H. Peijs
• Directorate-General Water Management of the Ministry 
   of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Mrs. A. Nijhof
• Head of the Division Disaster Control Division of the Ministry of the
   Interiorof the Land Schleswig-Holstein, Mr. J. Sternheim  (slides)
• Head of Cabinet of the Gouvernor of West-Flanders in Belgium, Mr. J.
   Debyser
• Key findings Safecoast by Niels Roode
• Key findings Chain of Safety by Viek Verdult
• ‘Risk versus Crisis’ where do we meet, now and in the future? By
      Rosanna Briggs & Richard Jorissen
• Theme sessions: Risk Risk meets Crisis Crisis

Preceding Comrisk products

• Comrisk final report      
• Comrisk brochure            
• Policies and Strategies for coastal risk management   
• Strategic planning in coastal risk management        
• Public perception and participation in coastal defence         
• Performance of risk management measures          
• Hydraulic boundary conditions           
• Case study flood risk Flanders / Zeeuws Vlaanderen      
• Case study flood risk assessment Ribe, Denmark          
• Case study flood risk assessment Lincolnshire, UK             
• Case study flood risk assessment Langeoog, Germany

National reports concerning the implementation of the EU Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) (Here only the North Sea region countries). For more country reports visit this site.

• Denmark    
• Germany   (summary in english)  
• The Netherlands     
• Belgium     
• United Kingdom     update: ICZM strategy for England (2009)   
• France

Other relevant international documents:

• Solutions for coastal protection in the Wadden Sea region, CPSL (2005)
• Coastal protection and sea level rise, CPSL (2001)
• Coastal water management / NorVision (2005)
• Evaluation of ICZM in Europe, Rupprecht consult (2006)
• ESF position paper: Impacts of climate change on the European marine
and coastal environment (2007)
• Adaptation to Climate Change: key terms. OECD (2007)
• Climate change: the cost of inaction and adaptation, EEA (2007)
• Climate change and water adaptation issues, EEA (2007)
• The changing faces of Europe's coastal areas, EEA (2006)
• Climate change and foreign policy, IISD (2007)
• ICZM; review of progress in selected OECD countries, OECD (1997)
• Floods: climate change and adaptation strategies, WHO (2002)
• Living with coastal erosion in Europe: findings and recommendations
from the EUROSION project (2004)
• Deltas on the move (2006)

For more background information and downloads on coastal flood risk management in the North Sea countries, visit our national files page.