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.
Main report: Scotland's Coastal Change Assessment
Scotland's Coastal Change Assessment 1 page summary
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