THEME 5: Long-term geomorphological change and climate change impacts

ENCORA will produce the Coastal wiki, a survey of existing coastal knowledge and experience in Europe, with references to the most relevant knowledge sources published in the literature and on the internet. It is intended that it will be used for daily practice by professionals in coastal science, practice and policy. The directory should become a major tool for keeping coastal professionals informed of recent developments and new major knowledge sources in their field.

The initial content of the Theme 5 section of the Coastal wiki and a corresponding list of authors has been identified. The official launch of the Coastal wiki will be in December 2007.

Valencia workshop Nov/ Dec 2006

Themes 4,5,6,8,9 and 10 held a joint workshop in Valencia on 29^th Nov-1^st Dec, with 115 ENCORA members. The shared objective of the workshop was to identify the thematic structure of the wiki Coastal Directory and to identify specific contributions, in the form or articles. All of the workshop participants came together for joint plenary sessions relating to science, practice and policy and to report back to the group about their individual parallel theme sessions. Downloads of the presentations are available from the central ENCORA website, www.encora.eu.