Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, US. http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_SPM_FINAL.pdf The world's coastlines will respond to these changes in different ways and at different pace depending on their bio-geophysical characteristics, and as such, past coastal trends often cannot be directly projected into the future. Instead, it is necessary to consider how different coastal environments will respond to the predicted climate change and take the expected future hazards into account in the coastal planning processes.
