Table I.

Kiyú stakeholders' description. Interests, vulnerability perception, willingness to implement EbA measures and VRA results

Groups of stakeholdersOrganisationInterestsVRA
Identified threats and vulnerabilitiesPre-intervention willingness to incorporate EbA measures
1. Kiyú neighboursNeighbours' AssociationLocal development; Tourism; Beach; EnvironmentErosionPositive; because of low cost; curiosity about the effectiveness
2. Non-clustered neighboursWithout organisationBeach quality and conservationErosionNegative; distrust about the effectiveness of measures
3. Non-clustered tradersWithout organisationBeach quality and conservationErosionNegative; disbelief and preference for hard engineering defences
4. MunicipalityLocal governmentSocio-economic development; impacts on infrastructure; natural beach re-certificationInfrastructureVery positive; because of the low cost and applicability to other sites in the coastal zone
5. Climate change cabinet (DOCC)Sub-national governmentClimate agenda in land-use and ICMInfrastructureVery positive; because of the adaptive management approach and low cost
VRAMain threats and impactsQuantitativeMain perceived barriers and supportive factors to adaptation
Date1: low; 5: very high Vulnerability/
capacity
1. Baseline (2011)Extreme events; erosion4.2/1.5Lack of local adaptive capacity
2. Before EbA implementation (2013)Wind storms; floodings; beach and bluff erosion2.5/2.1Lack of adaptive capacity and information regarding impacts and feasible adaptation measures / confidence in local commitment and local authorities
3. After EbA implementation (2014)Wind storms; Rain storms; SLR, increased extremes1.8/3.3Increased perception of threats after the damaging rainstorm in early 2014.
Increased confidence in adaptive capacity

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