Climate Resilience & Adaptation

Climate Resilience and Adaptation – ICZM 2021 has been written to provide parishes, communities and environmental groups on the Manhood Peninsula with information and practical ideas about climate change issues affecting the peninsula. The document is intended to accompany Towards ICZM on the Manhood Peninsula, produced during the Coastal Change Pathfinder Project in 2011.

Climate Resilience and Adaptation aims to:

• Highlight the issues that communities face in order to adapt and become more resilient to climate change
• Promote building on sites at lowest risk from flooding now, and those that will remain at low risk in future, or in a water compatible way.
• Promote development which is resilient to sea level rise and coastal change
• Ensure consideration is made for the appropriate life time of a development, taking into account coastal erosion, flooding, and whether/when homeowners may be willing to abandon property – 100 years or 300?
• Demonstrate the need to update existing long term Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) plans and policies for the coastal plain, including Towards ICZM on the Manhood Peninsula produced during the Coastal Change Pathfinder Project in 2011.
• Promote development that strengthens the area’s economic, environmental and social resilience to climate change
• Promote development that strengthens the area’s sense of place derived from tourism and food production, the major economic sectors on the peninsula.
• Ensure natural capital and nature based solutions are considered in relation to climate change resilience, mitigation and adaptation.

Please follow this link to download the Climate Change Resilience & Adaptation document

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)

The intial step in exploring ICZM within the Coastal Change Pathfinder Project involved developing a working partnership between residents, employers, coastal users and local government. The objective was to achieve sustainability in the face of climate change and consequent coastal change. The following approaches were pursued: · Establishment of an ICZM group comprised of MPP members, local businesses, marine user... Read More»

'Towards ICZM'

An Integrated Coastal Zone Management plan for the Manhood Peninsula area called 'Towards ICZM on the Manhood Peninsula' was adopted as capable of becoming a material consideration in planning decisions by Chichester District Council at a Full Council meeting on 20th September 2011. 'Towards ICZM' was recognised as an MPP document that reflects the views and aspirations of the community. Please see the link below to... Read More»

Coastal Change Films

A number of films were produced on behalf of the MPP by CoastNet as part of the Coastal Change Pathfinder Project. Three films were about coastal governance on the Manhood Peninsula, and four short films explored the coast from a young person’s perspective. The films about coastal governance were developed as a complementary suite of three. They looked at why the... Read More»