Auckland: A Case Study in the Regional Assessment of Long-Term Sea Level Change

Climate change has a variety of important environmental impacts, one of which is reflected in changing sea levels. Increasingly, for coastal management activities planners, engineers and surveyors need a reliable assessment of the sea level changes that can be expected over the next 100 years. While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced such assessments, they give a global picture only – a picture that may not be applicable in a regional context.