II, Coastal Management and Coastal Defense
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Criteria for Allocation of Resources
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In addition to identifying priorities for adaptive responses it is also appropriate to
identify the priorities that might be used to allocate resources. As the necessary
resources vary considerably depending on the adaptive option and the coastal
area, allocation criteria must include consideration of both the options and the
area. A list of sample criteria are provided in table 2. It is not suggested that any
one criterion should be pre-eminent. Some may be more significant in some
situations while other criteria may be more important.
Table 2. : Criteria lbr Allocation
Related to the coastal area :
1. The contribution of current activities within the coastal area that contribute to
its vulnerability to sea-level rise ;
2. The importance of the coastal area in terms of :
urgency of risk,
proportion of national land area,
population affected,
environmental importance,
social and cultural importance, and
regional importance.
3. The national ability to finance the response option ;
4. The institutional and political ability to realize implementation.
Related to the adaptive response option :
1. The cost of the option ;
2. The effectiveness of the option ;
3. Cost effectiveness ;
4. The economic, environmental, social, cultural, legal and institutional
implications of the adaptive option ;
5. The ~dnerability of the option to the impacts of an accelerated sea level rise ;
6. Performance under uncertainty ;
7. Equity.