Adaptation strartegy for sea level rise in vulnerable areas along China' s coast

摘要

It can can be seen from the calculation that the vulnerable area along China's coast in which the elevation is less than 5 m, is 143 900 km~2, accounting for about 11.3/100 of the total area of the 11 coastal provinces, municipalities, municipalities and autonomous regions. These areas are threatened to varying extent by sea level rise. According to prediction, the relative sea level rise (including global sea level rise caused by climate Change and local relative sea level rise caused by vertical crust movement and ground subsidence) along China' s coast will be 4-16 cm by the year 2030 with the optimum estimated value of 6-14 cm.