Author: Directorate General Environment European Commission (DG ENV)
Year of publication: 2004
Available languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Type of assessment: Not specified
Details: Assessment of exposure
Format of assessment: Report
Details: GIS-based assessment
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Others
Details: GIS experts
Institutional scale of use: Regional
Details: Directly below national level (NUTS 1, NUTS 2) and small countries as a whole
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Regional decision makers
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Exposure maps
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Europe
Potential geographic coverage: Europe (coastal environments)
Sectors covered: Infrastructure, Biodiversity
Details: Population, infrastructure, and ecologically valuable areas
Method used: Scenario mapping
Description of methodology: The RICE concept is meant to provide a proxy of the terrestrial areas, which may potentially be subject to coastal erosion or flooding in the coming period of 100 years. To determine this radius a distinction between the two most important flooding and erosion parameters is made. Once the concept of RICE was defined, the approach led to consider 13 indicators in relation to the current and expected future exposure to coastal erosion and flooding
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Exposure
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Sea level rise
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Data on 13 indicators with reference to coastal characteristics including data on pressure (sea level rise, shoreline evolution, shoreline changes, water level, urbanization, river sediment supply, geological type, elevation and engineered frontage) as well as data on impact (population, urban and industrial living, ecological value)
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Details: Sea level rise estimation for the next 100 years
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: No information
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Details: Report: A guide to coastal erosion management practices in Europe: lessons learned
Usefulness for political purposes: It supports the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Practitioners Network and facilitating access to relevant data and information
Applied by whom: Directorate General Environment European Commission
Open access: Yes