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Human intervention in coastal landscapes. Traditional approaches to coastal flood and erosion risk: hard and soft engineering. Sustainable approaches to coastal flood risk and coastal erosion management: shoreline coastal zone management. Use of key subject specific and technical terminology. Opportunity to conduct fieldwork to investigate the characteristics and effectiveness of different approaches to coastal management. Online research. Handling primary and secondary sources of data. Construct and interpret a of graphical and statistical techniques. To use a range of maps to identify different management approaches. Opportunity to assess different coastal management approaches, including activities such as analysis, Understand why people manage different coastlines in different ways. Identify and describe traditional approaches to coastal flood risk and coastal erosion, including: hard engineering – sea walls; rock armour/rip rap; gabions; revetments; groynes; cliff fixing; offshore reefs; barrages soft engineering – beach nourishment; dune regeneration; managed retreat; land-use management; ‘Do nothing’. Paired/small group discussion with feedback/snowballing to the group as a whole. Possible questions include: Why should people manage the coastline? Why might some stretches of coastline be managed differently? What techniques could be used to manage different coastlines? Having studied a range of hard and soft engineering strategies (this is well covered in textbooks and online resources), there is an opportunity to develop understanding and illustrate learning by completing a study of a local coastline This could involve fieldwork or be classroom based. Activities include: finding a map of the area mapping the extent of different management strategies employed describing each strategy explaining how each strategy protects the coast suggesting why each strategy has been used in each location If field data is collected, this could be analysed alongside information on costs and benefits. Reminder of the definition of ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’. As part of the previous exercises, or following them, comment on the sustainability of each of the approaches studied. Opportunity to research sustainable approaches to coastal flood and erosion management in the Coastal management, and hard and soft engineering approaches are topics that are well resourced in and online – a sample of resources below: Fieldwork Studies Council , with reference to fieldwork opportunities. UK government information on how the Environment Agency and local councils are developing It is quite easy to find information about each of the SMP areas online like the last resource for the Southeast Coastal Group. 20 min interview with Dr. Burbridge from Newcastle University on with useful summary diagrams
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