The Institute of Hydraulics of Cantabria (IH) has designed a computer program that will allow urban development projects in coastal areas of Spain and Latin America taking into account the impact of climate change.

This is an instrument that is already available to the Spanish Office for Climate Change, the Directorate General of Coasts of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, and the Ibero-American Network of Climate Change Offices (RIOCC) which, in recent days, has held the eleventh edition of its annual meeting in Santander.

This program allows the planning of urban initiatives and the forecasting of the effects that climate change may cause in these projects. The tool gathers information from more than 72,000 kilometers of coastline, both from the Iberian Peninsula and from areas of the American continent and Caribbean islands. In addition, it has data on tides, climatology, changes in coastal dynamics, etc. In this way, the computer model provides useful data for coastal management, both of the physical and socioeconomic environment.