The National Trust owns more than 740 miles of coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, around a tenth of the total coastline for the three countries.
Peter Nixon, the trust's director of land, landscape and nature, said:
"We're expecting more extremes, less predictability, more stormy events, combined with an underlying issue of rising sea levels."
He warned against the trap of believing "we can engineer our way out of this".
He said: "We all have to be sensitive to those who have become dependent on artificial defences, but if you keep up defending, you build up the risk of a catastrophic event.
"A false sense of security in artificial defences can lead you to a catastrophic collapse, as opposed to a managed impact.
"You can't hold the line everywhere, it's physically impossible and it's not good for society."
From BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26277373
Peter Nixon, the trust's director of land, landscape and nature, said:
"We're expecting more extremes, less predictability, more stormy events, combined with an underlying issue of rising sea levels."
He warned against the trap of believing "we can engineer our way out of this".
He said: "We all have to be sensitive to those who have become dependent on artificial defences, but if you keep up defending, you build up the risk of a catastrophic event.
"A false sense of security in artificial defences can lead you to a catastrophic collapse, as opposed to a managed impact.
"You can't hold the line everywhere, it's physically impossible and it's not good for society."
From BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26277373
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