Coastal Erosion

 The UK has a history of struggles with coastal erosion, particularly along its southern and eastern shores. More and more settlements are placed along coastlines and this is especially worrisome because they risk losing their properties to unstable coastal cliffs. The UK does not have lengthy sandy beaches (arguably one of the best ways to combat coastal erosion) and instead loses a lot of their coast to the high and destructive ocean waves. With the rising of ocean levels due to climate change, we expect to see more trends like these to continue. 

Below is a map outlining some of the areas that are both vulnerable to coastal erosion and that could have potentially catastrophic economic downfalls. 

Some of the most vulnerable areas, such as Skegness and Great Yarmouth in England as well as Port Talbot and Aberystwyth in Wales, stand to lose an accumulation of 22 billion euros worth of properties, affecting an upwards of 100,000 people.