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Mind Map by Jodie Goodacre, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jodie Goodacre
over 11 years ago
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Coastal Management
- Hard Engineering management
- Groynes
- Recurved sea wall
- Revetments
- Rip-Rap
- Gabion
- Groynes
- Soft Enegineering management
- Beach Nourishment
- Beach re-profiling
- Dune Regeneration
- Developing natural
defences of coral reefs
and mangroves
- Beach Nourishment
- Advance the line
- Do nothing
- Hold the line
- Retreat the line
- Abbotts Hall Farm, Essex
- Southeast England is
experiencing eustatic rise and
isostatic sinking
- Sea level is rising at a rate of about 6mm per year
- Pressure on stretches of low-lying coast
- 40% of salt marshes have been
lost to coastal squeeze over the last
25 years.
- Mudflats and salt marshes are
important feeding and nesting
areas
- Being eroded at a rate of 2m per year
- Being eroded at a rate of 2m per year
- On Blackwater estuary
- A managed retreat scheme
was implemented in 2002
- Five breaches were made in the
embankments, allowing sea
water to cover some 80 hectares
- Essex Wildlife Trust in
1999 was keen to work
with the Environmental
agency to try and
regrow coastal
marshes
- Counterwalls were constructed at each end to
ensure neighbouring towns were not flooded
- Southeast England is
experiencing eustatic rise and
isostatic sinking
- New Coastal management
strategies recognise three needs:
- To ensure that the strategies are sustainable
- To take a more holistic view and
to abandon the old piecemeal
approach to coastal management
which tackled one issue at a time
- To encourage cooperation between
the various coastal stakeholders
- To ensure that the strategies are sustainable
- Shoreline management plans
- First made public in 1995
- Sustainable
- Compatiable with adjacent coastal areas
- Takes account of natural
coastal processes as well
as the needs of people
- First made public in 1995
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