Publication
The Coastal Change Assessment creates a shared evidence base to support more sustainable coastal and terrestrial planning decisions in the light of a changing climate. For the first time, all 21000 km of the Scottish shoreline have been analysed to a level of detail never achieved before.
The assessment has established historic coastal change by extracting the georectified coastline position from OS 2nd Edition Country Series maps (1892-1905) and compared it to both the 1970’s and current coastal position (updated by LiDAR datasets where available) to estimate past erosion/accretion rates. Using the historic coastal change rates the coastline position is projected into the future. Using the erosion rates combined with a number of socioeconomic datasets, key assets at risk from future coastal erosion have been identified.
Scotland's Coastal Change Assessment 1 page summary- Whole coast assessment
- National Overview
- Vulnerability assessment
- Coastal erosion policy context
- Methodology
- Recommendations
- Cell 1 - St Abb's Head to Fife Ness
- Cell 2 - Fife Ness to Cairnbulg Point
- Cell 3 - Cairnbulg Point to Duncansby Head
- Cell 4 - Duncansby Head to Cape Wrath
- Cell 5 - Cape Wrath to the Mull of Kintyre
- Cell 6 - Mull of Kintyre to the Mull of Galloway
- Cell 7 - Mull of Galloway to the Inner Solway Firth
- Cells 8 and 9 - The Western Isles
- Cell 10 - Orkney
- Cell 11 - Shetland
