Regional issues raised by sea-level rise and their policy implications

摘要: Global sea levels are rising and this change is expected to accelerate in the coming century due anthropogenic global warming. Any rise level promotes land loss, increased flooding salinisation. The impacts of possible responses sea-level vary at local regional scale variation factors. Policy human-enhanced greenhouse effect need address these different dimensions climate change, including scale. Based on reviews analyses relative vulnerability, 4 contrasting regions selected examined more detail using national assessments. These (1) Europe, (2) West Africa, (3) South, South-East East Asia (4) Pacific Small Islands. Some potential found have strong cooperation foster mitigation approaches (to reduce gas emissions and, hence, magnitude change) adaptive solutions would be beneficial. For instance, subsiding megacities questions about long-term deltaic management common challenging issues. debate stabilisation forcing also requires information emission pathways. results will provided by integrated models, calibrated against assessments