ABOUT COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Coastal Management (formerly known as the Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Enviornment, IWCCE, from 1996) provides a focus for the Isle of Wight Council's activities on a local, regional, national and transnational scale in relation to coastal and geotechnical issues. The Centre fulfills the Council's functions in these fields and contributes to the delivery of strategic objectives.

Coastal Management provides specialist services in the coastal management and geological-related fields, including the following Council's functions :-

• Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
• Coastal defence
• Coastal, landslide and cliff management and monitoring
• Ground stability engineering
• Planning liaison over coastal and geotechnical-related issues
• Dissemination of information and consultations through the Isle of Wight Coastal Visitor's Centre.
• Management of Newport Harbour and Ventnor Haven.

Coastal Management has been successful in securing European Commission funding for a wide variety of coastal and geotechnical-related research projects and initiatives. The results of research projects help address and inform Isle of Wight coastal and geological-related problems particularly in the context of climate change.