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Article Dans Une Revue Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures Année : 2023

Social science to accelerate coastal adaptation to sea-level rise

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The latest IPCC report estimates that approximately 1 billion people will be at risk from coastal hazards in the near term due to coastal population increase, sea-level rise and other coastal changes. This will occur in a world that is changing rapidly due to climate change, ecosystem decline, human development and the projected transformations of the economy to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. In this context, social sciences provide a pivotal perspective to coastal adaptation, for example, while assessing barriers and opportunities across scales, from local to global. This scoping review explores how social sciences support coastal adaptation. We show that Political Sciences, Economics, Sociology and Geography are already supporting coastal adaptation. Yet, scientific fields such as legal sciences, psychology, history and archaeology as well as anthropology and ethnography are less developed in the context of coastal adaptation to sea-level rise. New research avenues could also integrate education, media and communication research and aim at truly interdisciplinary studies linking different branches of social sciences with coastal science and climate services. This effort could help moving from a coastal adaptation often focused on coastal engineering protection to a broader vision of coastal resilient development, also addressing the challenges of mitigation, sustainable development and coastal ecosystem decline.
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hal-04256739 , version 1 (24-10-2023)

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Xénia Philippenko, Gonéri Le Cozannet. Social science to accelerate coastal adaptation to sea-level rise. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 2023, 1, pp.e37. ⟨10.1017/cft.2023.25⟩. ⟨hal-04256739⟩
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