Assessing the Vulnerability of Marine Habitats in Wales to the Impacts of Climate Changes (2011)

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• Published by: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
• Last updated: 01 June 2011
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Climate change is recognised as a major environmental issue and the process of global change and climate will impact upon many aspects of everyday life, presenting a serious threat to the natural environment. In response to the scientific and political consensus of a need to tackle climate change the UK government bought into law the climate change act 2008. This requires a Strategic Climate Change Risk Assessment (SCCRA) to be carried out every five years, the first of which will need to be completed by November 2011. This project was carried out to develop a methodology to assess the vulnerability of Welsh marine habitats to the impact of climate change and to use this method to undertake an assessment of welsh marine habitats. This assessment helped enable the identification of th ose habitats most at risk from climate change and it is envisaged that this information will be used to inform management plans and government policy and decision making.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-01-19
• Access contraints: Part of this dataset is sensitive and restricted. The sensitive data includes the location of oyster habitats. Sensitive data must be kept confidential; general release is not permitted due to risk of harm to the environment or third parties. Sensitive data may only be released under an appropriate NRW Licence. Requests should be referred to NRW's Access to Information Officer. Data may be released freely if the sensitive records are removed in advance, or shown only at a coarser scale.
• Harvest GUID: 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313134373133
• Extent: Latitude: 53.51306700° to 51.24082900°
• Extent: Longitude: -5.77774100° to -2.60886500°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::WGS84
• Dataset reference date: 2011-06-01 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2011-02-24 (revision)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (custodian); HR Wallingford (originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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