Ship breaking activities in the coastal areas have gained national importance for the Bangladesh economy. Increasing demand of raw materials for re-rolling mills and negative impacts on coastal environments, ship breaking activities present both challenges and opportunities for area based management in south-eastern coast of Bangladesh (i.e. Chattogram). Sea level rise (SLR) along with the extreme weather events make these coasts more vulnerable which is also exacerbated by the unplanned urbanization and development of industries in ecologically sensitive coastal areas. This program is dealing to develop DPSIR model for ship breaking sites, which is based on a chain of causal links starting from ‘driving forces’ (i.e. economic, environmental and human activities) through ‘pressures’ (i.e. emissions, waste, discharges etc.) leading to ‘states’ (i.e. physical, chemical and biological situation of biota and environment) and ‘impacts’ on targets such as ecosystems and human health, eventually giving political or technical ‘responses’ (i.e. taxes, environmental law). This model will assess the coastal ecosystem vulnerability for ship breaking regions and modulate its response to stressors over time and space. The model outputs will be translated into policy documents to support the sustainable coastal zone management plans for south-east coastal region of Bangladesh.