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Coastal Management
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A-Levels Geography (Crowded Coasts) Mapa Mental sobre Coastal Management, criado por Jodie Goodacre em 28-04-2013.
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crowded coasts
geography
geography
crowded coasts
a-levels
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Jodie Goodacre
, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Coastal Management
Hard Engineering management
Groynes
Recurved sea wall
Revetments
Rip-Rap
Gabion
Soft Enegineering management
Beach Nourishment
Beach re-profiling
Dune Regeneration
Developing natural defences of coral reefs and mangroves
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
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
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
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
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