Chaire Développement Durable - Environnement, Energie et Société Professeur Anny Cazenave Titulaire, année académique 2012-2013 and ; Coastal vulnerability and societal impacts Workshop in english

Sea level rise represents a major threat of on-going and 10 June 11 June future global warming for 09h30 Objectives of the Workshop 09h00 Extreme Sea Levels; Past and Future low-lying, highly populated Anny Cazenave, Collège de France Svetlana Jevrejeva, National Center coastal regions worldwide. 09h45 Present-day Global Mean Sea Level Rise; (United Kingdom) Under the combined effects Observations and Causes 09h30 Sediment Dynamics and Coastal Zone Management of human-induced factors Anny Cazenave, Collège de France Patrice Walker, CREOCEAN (France) and natural phenomena, 10h05 Regional Variability: Causes for Contemporary Regional 10h00 Coastal Vulnerability of Asian Mega Deltas: some coastal regions already Sea Level Changes Natural Delta System versus Human-influenced suffer from shoreline erosion Detlef Stammer, Institute of Oceanography, University Recent Changes and submersion. Moreover, of Hamburg (Germany) Yoshiki Saito, Geological Survey of Japan (Japan) in addition to a global mean 10h45 Regional Sea Level Variations Due to Post Glacial Rebound 10h30 Rising Sea Level: the Dutch Strategy on how to Cope elevation, sea level presents an and Solid Response to Ongoing Land Ice Melt with Climate Change in the 21st Century important regional variability Giorgio Spada, Urbino University (Italy) Marcel Stive, Faculty of Civil Engineering and that, in some areas, amplifies Geosciences (CITG), Delft University of Technology the rate of sea level rise. 11h15 Vertical Crustal Motions of the Earth’s Crust: Processes and Observations (The Netherlands) Guy Woppelmann, University of La Rochelle (France) 11h00 Break During this workshop, we will 11h45 Apparent Sea Level Rise and Earthquakes 11h30 Risk Management: an Opportunity for Adaptation to present the most recent updates Valérie Ballu, University of La Rochelle (France) Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in Coastal Zones about sea level observations 12h00 Total Relative Sea Level Changes since 1950 Jean-Pierre Savard, OURANOS (Consortium on and projections for the next in Different Regions of the World Ocean Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate few decades, highlighting the Benoit Meyssignac, LEGOS (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Change, Canada) importance of the regional Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, France) 12h00 Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change: from variability. We will provide 12h30 Lunch Observations to Public Policies in France a synthesis of the various Nicole Lenôtre, BRGM (France) phenomena causing shoreline 14h00 The Driving Factors of Coastal Evolution – 12h30 The French Coastal Environment: Land Use, modifications on interannual Toward a Systemic Approach Coastal Conservation, Demographic Pressure, Risks to multidecadal time scales Manuel Garcin, BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, France) and Consequences of Climate Change and will discuss the causes of Sebastien Colas, Ministère de l’Ecologie observed shoreline erosion for 14h30 Sea Level Rise Effects on Coastal Erosion: et du Développement durable (France) the past few decades. More Review of Observations for the Past Few Decades 13h00 Lunch break focused presentations about Gonéri Le Cozannet, BRGM (France) 14h30 From Climate Change Hypothesis to the Sizing impacts of sea level rise will 15h00 Sea Level Projections (Global and Regional) of Coastal Infrastructures be provided for a number of for the 21st Century Michel Benoit, Laboratoire Saint Venant-EDF, Cetmef, coastal regions (Netherlands, David Salas, CNRM-Météo France (Centre national Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées (France) Asian deltas, tropical atolls, de recherches météorologiques, France) 15h00 Societal and Economic Impacts of Sea Level Rise Quebec and France), with focus 15h30 Contributions of Greenland and Antarctica to Future Vincent Viguié, CIRED (Centre international de on economical and societal Sea Level Rise Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, consequences as well as on Catherine Ritz, LGGE (Laboratoire de Glaciologie France) potential adaptation strategies. et Géophysique de l’Environnement), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble (France) 15h30 General Discussion; 16h00 Break Recommendations for Future Research 16h30 Modelling the Future Total Relative Sea Level 16h00 End of the workshop of the 21st Century at Regional/Local Scale Roderik van der Val, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research - Utrecht (IMAU), University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) Chaire créée 17h00 Forecasting Climate and Sea Level Changes on Decadal avec le soutien de Time Scale; State of the Art and Limitations Philippe Rogel, CERFACS (Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre Scientifique, France) 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris 17h30 Adjourn www.college-de-france.fr