Coastal Management Flashcards
What is hard engineering?
Works against nature and aims to resist the energy of waves and tides. It is the use of artificial structures
Name the four types of coastal hard engineering.
Sea walls, groynes, gabions and rock armour.
What is soft engineering?
A sustainable approach that does not use artificial structures and works with natural processes, rather than against them
What are the three types of coastal soft engineering?
Beach nourishment, dune regeneration and beach reprofiling
What is managed retreat?
Where the sea is allowed to erode and flood relatively low value coastal areas deliberately
Where is the holderness coastline?
North Yorkshire coastline facing the North Sea. The coastline begins with Flamborough Head in the north and ends at spurn head in the south at the Humber estuary
Why is the Holderness coast the fastest eroding in Europe?
Soft boulder clay cliffs and destructive waves from the arctic
What coastal management have they used in mappleton?
Groynes, a sea wall, revetment and beach nourishment
What has happened to areas such as the farm at Great Cowden because of management at mappleton?
The coastline is eroding more rapidly due to stronger waves and lack of beach material from LSD
Has management at mappleton been successful?
Yes, the coastline is no longer eroding at mappleton
What is protecting easington gas terminal?
A sea wall
