What is coastal squeeze?
This project re-defined what causes 鈥榗oastal squeeze鈥� and assessed the best way of managing its past and future impacts.
Documents
The podcast is available on Jacobs website. The podcast was recorded on 9 November 2021.
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The purpose of this project was to better define and understand what causes 鈥榗oastal squeeze鈥� as well as to assess the best way of managing its past and future impacts.
Coastal squeeze is now defined as 鈥榯he loss of natural habitats or deterioration of their quality arising from anthropogenic structures or actions, preventing the landward transgression of those habitats that would otherwise naturally occur in response to sea level rise in conjunction with other coastal processes. Coastal squeeze affects habitat on the seaward side of existing structures.鈥�
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Link to a podcast discussing coastal squeeze has been added to the documents section. It features the project team that created the report.
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