Northern Ireland Coastal Vulnerability Assessment for Physical Assets

Northern Ireland's coast is assessed for physical asset vulnerability to erosion in this 2018 study. The layer represents a high-level preliminary Erosion Risk Appraisal, created by Amey Consulting with HR Wallingford for the Department for Infrastructure and DAERA. It compares areas of high, medium, and low erosion risk against asset values.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing coastal defense investments based on erosion risk and asset value layers.
• Modeling future infrastructure exposure to coastal erosion based on the preliminary risk assessment.
• Integrating physical asset vulnerability data with natural and historic asset layers for comprehensive planning.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a formal study commissioned by two government departments (DfI and DAERA).
• Assessment methodology is documented in a publicly available full report.
• Data is available in standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, ESRI SHAPE).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; data is based on information available at the time of the 2018 study.

Provenance

Source

Amey Consulting with HR Wallingford for the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).

Collection Method

Created as part of a high-level preliminary vulnerability assessment for a baseline study and gap analysis.

Time Range

Study prepared in 2018.

Freshness

Based on a study from 2018; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Northern Ireland coast.