POINTS FOR POLICYMAKERS RESEARCH BRIEF - Foreseeing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise

Background Users and project team members participated in discussions about the sea level rise models, the Coastal communities around the globe are increasingly contending feasibility of adaptation options and their related costs and benefits, and the added benefits that with the impacts of climate driven hazards including sea level could result from using nature-based solutions. [...] Given that 60% of people live 60 miles or more from the coast, sea level rise is an Inclusion of local residents in the development of the VR experience is a key success factor in abstract phenomenon that is physically distant from many people effectively communicating sea level rise risk. [...] Further exacerbating the The presence of multi-disciplinary development communication challenge, sea level rise is a slow-moving process team members who were also residents of the creating little sense of urgency while marine science is simply not project locations was a key success factor in both the design and use of the experiences. [...] Jeremy The team designed several future hazard scenarios based upon Bailenson scientific projections and coastal-scale visualizations of the local is a professor of environments in three coastal communities: Turner Station in Communication and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Maryland and the cities of Santa Cruz and Long Beach in California. [...] When potential solutions were added into the VR simulations, it allowed the organizers to catalyze This brief is based on the paper “Using Virtual community conversations about current and future risk as well as Reality in Sea Level Rise Planning and Community Engagement — An Overview” published in the possible strategies for long-term resilience.