‘ S T U C K I N R E V E R S E ’ 1: THE DISAPPEARING SUFFOLK COAST
The world’s coastal zone is on the front line when it comes to the likely impacts of global environmental change. Accelerated sea level rise combined with possible increases in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events is likely to lead to more damaging windstorm events, greater wave energy and higher rainfall intensity, producing accelerated erosion of beaches and coastal margins. Such impacts will have profound implications for human societies and ecological communities located at, or close to, the present coastline, raising problems that are likely to increase in prevalence as the global coastal population grows from
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