Objective The project centres upon two primary and linked objectives.Firstly, to investigate the behaviour of sedimentary, or othervulnerable coastal systems, under the conditions of sea-levelrise, in determining coastal positions in time and of theirinteraction with other significant environmental controls.Secondly, to evaluate the impacts of rising sea level, and linkedcontrols, upon coastal systems likely to be sensitive torecording significant environmental changes under conditions ofclimate forcing.The different elements of the project are necessarily concernedinitially with the collection of data upon a range of coastalsystems changes and of these systems' sensitivity to variousenvironmental process controls. Both contemporary and pastrecords of change, at short to medium timescales (10{1} - 10{3}years) will be examined to establish the impacts of sea-levelrise and of the coast's vulnerability to change. Coastal dataderived from remote sensing imagery (e.g. LANDSAT, SPOT),archival - documentary sources and sedimentary - geomorhologicalrecords will be obtained for European coastal environments.Work concerned with determining the causes and patterns ofcoastal functioning will concentrate upon the analysis of recordsof wave, tide, climate and sediments data. Techniques willinvolve those of precise site survey and the geophysicalinvestigation of alongshore to offshore changes. This work willbe linked to sedimentological studies, using stratigraphic -coring and other techniques of sediments analysis. Laboratoryexamination of these records will be undertaken to establish thetimescales and frequencies of environmental changes and ofinformation upon accompanying coastal process operations.Statistical and mathematical approaches, involving quantificationof sediments behaviour; wave refraction - coastal dynamics,tidal, sediment transfer, hydraulic and other models, will alsobe used. These approaches will lead to the testing of therecords of coastal behaviour against established models.In studies designed to establish the coastal zone's responses tosea-level rise, and the significance of such environmentalimpacts for approaches to coastal management, data collectionwill be linked to the development of data monitoring approaches,to database construction and to archiving. Information uponcoastal zone behaviour and sensitivity to changes will becollected using aerial, remote sensing and field truthingtechniques; coupled to the establishment of appropriate datahandling systems using GIS approaches. The mapping andinterpretation of these data will be used to investigateappropriate methods for linking local scale coastal environmentaldata (e.g. 1:2500), essential for the accurate definition ofcoastal impact and resource use problems, with theirrepresentation at regional scales (e.g. 1:50,000 and 1:250,000). Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensingnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 0103 - Climate change impacts Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator University College Cork Address College road 30 Cork Ireland See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all COVENTRY UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Priory street CV1 5FB Coventry See on map Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 1 place aristide briand 92195 Meudon See on map MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT PUBLIC WORKS AND WATER MANAGEMENT Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Kortenaerkade 1 2500 EX Den haag ('s-gravenhage) See on map UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Cromore road BT52 1SA Coleraine See on map UNIVERSITÉ DE PROVENCE, AIX-MARSEILLE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Place victor hugo 3 13331 Marseille See on map Universidade de Lisboa Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Campo grande 1700 Lisboa See on map University of Durham United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address South road DH1 3LE Durham See on map Université d'Aix-Marseille I (Université de Provence) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 29 avenue robert schuman 13090 Aix-en-provence See on map