Our Coast Our Future Coastal Strategy

In late 2024, we completed Part A of the Our Coast Our Future Coastal Strategy, following the Victoria’s Resilient Coast – Adapting for 2100+ state guidance.

We encourage you to read our fact sheets and technical reports.

Our work focussed on understanding:

  • what our communities value about our coast
  • how coastal hazards may impact these values now and into the future
  • quantifying these hazard impacts through risk assessment and economic studies.

Without further intervention, coastal hazards will potentially incur significant costs for our coastal areas. "Average annual costs" reflect potential monetary damage or loss based on hazard probabilities (i.e. the likelihood of a hazard event occurring in any given year).

Projected average annual costs without adaptation action:

  • Short-term (now–2040): $8.6M
  • Medium-term (2040–2070): $22.0M
  • Long-term (2070–2100): $67.3M

Storm-tide inundation is the Peninsula’s main driver of increasing potential damages over time, with largest damages from exposed public and private buildings and facilities. Erosion and increasing tidal areas due to sea level rise also poses risks in some areas.

These findings show the importance of taking action now to reduce long-term impacts.

Learn more about the project and read the accompanying documents

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