The islands have a great tourist pressure in the coastal zone and are very exposed to the storms of the Atlantic which makes them especially vulnerable to the impacts of Climate Change, due to the rise in sea level and the increase in frequency and intensity of strong waves, which increase the risk of coastal flooding. In the last decade, it is estimated that the socio-economic losses due to the effects of coastal flooding amount to about 250 million euros in Macaronesia.
In addition, we are facing a coastline that presents a very abrupt orography that makes conventional adaptation measures unfeasible due to the great economic investment Y environmental what they suppose