This section of the Resource Centre contains literature on methods, models, tools, data sources for and results of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessments for coastal zone, in different NAI party regions.

1. Coastal zones and marine ecosystems - chapter of the IPCC WGII contribution to the IPCC Third Assessment Report [IPCC, 2001]
2. Coastal flooding and wetland loss in the 21st century: changes under the SRES climate and socio-economic scenarios [R. Nicholls, 2004]
3. Status of coral reefs of the world 2004 [WWF, 2004]
4. Global Climate Change and the Costal Areas of the Rio de la Plata [V. Barros, 2006]
5. Global and regional exposure to large rises in sea-level: a sensitivity analysis [Anthoff, D., R.J. Nicholls, R.S.J.Tol, and A. T. Vafeidis, 2006]
6. Climate dangers and atoll countries [Barnett, J., and W.N. Adger, 2003]
7. Not if but when: Adapting to natural hazards in the Pacific Islands region. A policy note. [Bettencourt, S., R. Croad, P. Freeman, J.E Hay, R. Jones, P. King, P. Lal, A. Mearns, G. Miller et al ., 2005]
8. Economy-wide estimates of the implications of climate change: Sea level rise  [Bosello, F., R. Lazzarin, and R.S.J. Tol, 2004]
9. The impact of climate change on domestic and international tourism: A simulation study. [Bigano, A., J.M. Hamilton, and R.S.J. Tol, 2005]
10. Coral reefs and global climate change: potential contributions of climate change to stresses on coral reef ecosystems [Buddemeier, R.W., J.A. Kleypas, and B. Aronson, 2004]
11. Key findings from a multidisciplinary examination of integrated coastal management process sustainability [Christie, P., K. Lowry, A.T. White, E.G. Oracion, L. Sievanen, R.S. Pomeroy et al., 2005]
12. Case study: Climate change and coastal management in practice - A cost-benefit assessment in the Humber, UK [Coombes, E., D. Burgess, N. Jackson, K. Turner, and S. Cornell, 2006]
13. The effect of sea-level rise on coastal geomorphology [Crooks, S., 2004]
14. Shoreline Management Plan Guidance: Volume 1: Aims and requirements [2006]
15. Dynamic Interactive Vulnerability Assessment (DIVA) [Dinas-Coast Consortium, 2006]
16. Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change [Donner, S.D., W.J. Skirving, C.M. Little, M. Oppenheimer, and O. Hoegh-Guldberg, 2005]
17. Coral bleaching - how and why? [Douglas, A.E., 2003]
18. Land use changes in coastal areas of Thailand [Durongdej, S., 2001]
19. Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years [Emanuel, K., 2005]
20. Scaling adaptation: Climate change response and coastal management in the UK [Few, R., K. Brown, and E.L. Tompkins, 2004]
21. Effects of sea level rise on Asian mangrove forests [Furakawa, K., and S. Baba, 2001]
22. Hurricanes and Caribbean coral reefs: impacts, recovery patterns, and role in long-term decline [2005]
23. Stochastic simulation of episodic soft coastal cliff recession [Hall, J. W., I.C. Meadowcroft, E.M.Lee, and P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder, 2002]
24. Impacts of climate change on coastal flood risk in England and Wales: 2030-2100 [Hall, J.W., P.B. Sayers, M.J.A. Walkden, and M. Panzeri, 2006]
25. Climate change and international tourism: a simulation study [Hamilton, J.M., D.R. Maddison, and R.S.J. Tol, 2005]
26. The impacts of climate change in coastal marine systems [Christopher D. G. Harley, A. Randall Hughes, Kristin M. Hultgren, Benjamin G. Miner, Cascade J. B. Sorte, Carol S. Thornber, Laura F. Rodriguez, Lars Tomanek and Susan L. Williams, 2006]
27. National climate change adaptation policy and implementation plan for Guyana [Khan, M., 2001]
28. Landscape-scale socio-economics of sea-level rise [Knogge, T.,  Schirmer, M., and Schuchardt, B., 2004]
29. Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone: Science plan and implementation strategy [Hartwig H. Kremer, Martin D.A. Le Tissier, Peter R. Burbridge, Liana Talaue-McManus, Nancy N. Rabalais, John Parslow and Chris J. Crossland and Bill Young, 2004]
30. Impact of climate on tourism demand [Lise, W., and R.S.J. Tol, 2002]
31. Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas [Heike K. Lotze, Hunter S. Lenihan, Bruce J. Bourque, Roger H. Bradbury, Richard G. Cooke, Matthew C. Kay, Susan M. Kidwell, Michael X. Kirby, Charles H. Peterson and Jeremy B. C. Jackson, 2006]
32. Impact of sea-level rise and storm surges on a coastal community [K. L. McInnes, K. J. E. Walsh, G. D. Hubbert and T. Beer, 2003]
33. Degradation of mangrove tissues and implications for peat formation in Belizean island forests [B. A. Middleton and K. L. McKee, 2001]
34. Integrated Coastal Management Process Sustainability Reference Book [Milne, N., P. Christie, R. Oram, R. L. Eisma, and A.T. White, 2003]
35. Metrics for assessing the economic benefits of climate change policies: Sea-level rise [Nicholls, R.J., S.E. Hanson, J. Lowe, D.G. Vaughan, T. Lenton, A. Ganoposki, R.S.J. Tol, and A. T. Vafeidis, 2006]
36. Climate change and coastal waterbird populations-past declines and future impacts [Norris, K., P.W. Atkinson, and J.A.Gill, 2004]
37. Economic evaluation of impact of land loss due to sea level rise in Thailand [Ohno, E., 2001]
38. Coastal erosion phenomenon in Nigeria: Causes, control and implications [Okude, A. S., and I. A. Ademiluyi, 2006]
39. Vulnerability of Malaysia to sea-level change [Ong, J. E., 2001]
40. Climate flickers and range shifts of coral reefs [Precht, W. F., and R. B. Aronson, 2004]
41. Climate change and coral reefs: different effects in two high-latitude areas [Riegl, B., 2003]
42. Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide [Royal Society, 2005]
43. Deltas in Southeast and East Asia: their evolution ans current problems [Saito, Y., 2001]
44. Effects of global change on coastal salt marshes [Simas, T., J.P. Nunes, and J.G. Ferreira, 2001]
45. Adaptation to five metres of sea level rise [Tol, R. S. J., M. Bohn, T. E. Downing, M. L.Guillerminet, E. Hizsnyik, R. Kasperson, et al.]
46. Concepts and methods for Integrated Coastal Management [Turner, R.K., 2001]
47. The response of soft rock shore profiles to increased sea-level rise [Walkden, M.J.A., and M.E. Dickson, 2006]
48. New Developments of the SimCLIM model for simulating adaptation to risks arising from climate variability and change [R. Warrick, W. Ye, P. Kouwenhoven, J. E. Hay, and C. Cheatham, 2005]
49. Changes in Tropical Cyclone Number, Duration, and Intensity in a Warming Environment [P. J. Webster, G. J. Holland , J. A. Curry, and H. R. Chang, 2005]
50. Status of Coral Reefs of the World [Wilkinson, C.R., 2002]
51. Long-term prospects: Tourism 2020 Vision
52. Climate change and tourism. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Climate Change and Tourism [WTO, 2003]
53. Indicators for social and economic coping capacity - moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity [Yohe, G., and R.S.J. Tol, 2002]
54. New TOPEX sea state bias models and their effect on global mean sea level [Chambers, D.P., S.A. Hayes, J.C.Ries, and T.J. Urban, 2003]
55. The future of coral reefs [Knowlton, N., 2001]
56. Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2004 [Wilkinson, C., 2004]