Abstract
The Coastal Zone Management Subgroup (CZMS) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) proposed a world-wide project of the vulnerability assessment on a case study basis. This paper describes a need of the databese for vulnerability assessment to sea level rise in Asian and Pacific region, which helps researchers to assess each study area in an objective and common method. Importance of the regional assessment in the Asia and Pacific is also stressed, and the first step of this regional assessment in the study area was carried out, using the Asian Pacific Database.
