Managed Retreat, Coastal Cities and Settlements Workshop

Location: event in Christchurch New Zealand 

Date and time: 17 October from 10am  

Organisers/Hosts: Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 

Adaptation at the coast poses many challenges for decision makers not least the ongoing, non-linear, and potentially irreversible nature of sea level rise and its associated hazards and risks. Different adaptation options have different lifetimes, and some create maladaptive outcomes. This poses issues for policy and practice for near-term and long-term outcomes and how to adapt over time and how to pay and who pays.

Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington has been at the forefront of SLR research, tools for projections, hazard and risk assessment, dynamic and adaptive decision-making approaches and policy responses with Aotearoa New Zealand  and global partners.  This workshop will involve some context setting, games for priming decision makers in dynamic situations and workshopping of the solutions space using case studies.

A half day field trip will be arranged on Saturday 18, to ground truth the learning from the Friday workshop, subject to interest.

We welcome coastal hazard, risk and adaptation researchers, practitioners, policy participants and those implementing adaptation at the flax roots.