Resilience by anticipating change: simple and robust decision making for coastal adaptation planners, communities and elected officials

2019-05-10Management of the coastal zone under climate change and deep uncertainty requires robust, flexible and adaptive policy-making based on the effectiveness of the adaptation measures against always changing conditions. This dissertation presents an application of dynamic adaptation pathways, triggered by tipping points, turning points, and other environmental and socioeconomic indicators to increase the resiliency of the Carmen-Pajonal-Machona lacunae system against Climate Change, erosion, salinization, pollution, and against impacts of future development. This application may be expanded to the Gulf of Mexico including the US and other significant environments in the Meso-America corridor in more than seven countries