About this section
These articles have been made possible by a partnership between The Crown Estate and The Open University. The Crown Estate manages property in the UK within the Marine, Urban and Rural Estates and all their revenue surplus is returned to the Treasury. The Marine Stewardship Fund, which supports this project, contributes to the good management and stewardship of the marine estate. The Open University is committed to making education available to all.
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The Crown Estate has been examining the potential impact of climate change on its Marine Estate. This feature demonstrates the potential impacts of climate changes leading to a sea level rise and a resulting increase in flooding risk. It examines the consequences for an area of land close to the shore at a point along the south coast of England.
On the following pages, you can see the changes as they would effect one stretch of coastline.
In creating this example, The Crown estate has drawn on the work of Haskoning UK Ltd and Professor David Pugh OBE. The data sets used include some provided by the Environment Agency and permission to use these is gratefully acknowledged.
Observed sea level is a combination of 3 components, the tidal level, the surge level and the mean sea level. This module will show the predicted effects of climate change on mean sea level and flooding risk as a result of the surge component being added to a higher mean sea level.
The figure above shows the sea / land boundary at the mean sea level relevant to the year 2000.
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