Spatial planning and development has an integrative function in the planning of spatial development and the use of land and sea areas, and therefore, climate change represents a significant threat to the management of spatial development.
Accordingly, spatial planning and development functions within environmental protection, as well as adaptations to climate change, which in the context of the intensification of climate change, should be further improved.
All scientific research and predictions of future scenarios indicate that the observed rise in the sea level in recent decades will continue, therefore, it is expected that the importance of adaptation is increasingly recognised at all levels. However, the described phenomena and problems have been recognised as insufficiently researched and evaluated in the context of long-term spatial planning, and an analysis and instructional web browser were created that are presented today as some of the measures that are used to contribute to the strengthening of our the County’s resistance to climate change.
The Institute for Physical Planning of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Rijeka have been successfully collaborating for several years on a research project about the impact of sea level rise on the vulnerability of the coastal area, which has so far resulted in the publication of two scientific and expert publications:
It is now possible to review the results of the vulnerability analysis via the web browser of the vulnerability of the coastal area of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County due to sea level rise, which presents the most important indicators of the analyses in a visually attractive and interactive way. It was prepared with the idea of bringing this extremely important issue closer to all professional services, primarily county administrative departments, towns and municipalities, port authorities and the general public.