Managed Retreat, Coastal Cities and Settlements Workshop

Location: Event in Christchurch / Ōtautahi

Date and time: 17 October 10am - 2.30pm

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

$45

Workshop Co-Leads: Professor Tim Naish and Adjunct Professor Judy Lawrence.

Those joining this post-conference workshop would benefit from attending the Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, Masterclass on Sea-Level Rise (SLR) Challenges for Adaptation which covers the unique challenges for adaptation action and how they have been integrated into national guidance for practitioners and decision makers.

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.

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