Coastal management with no conflict - Blackwater Estuary Flashcards
1
Q
What is the blackwater estuary?
A
An area of tidal salt marsh and low lying farmland, prone to coastal flooding and erosion.
2
Q
Why was management required?
A
Because it was originally protected by flood embankments and revetments, which became unsustainable
3
Q
what management was put into place?
A
- Radical solution
- Essex wildlife trust purchased abbots hall farm and blackwater estuary
- managed realignment scheme put into place, 5 breaches in sea wall
4
Q
What benefits did this scheme have?
A
- abbots hall farm owners received market price for farm
- high costs of holding the line avoided
- water quality improved
- additional income from ecotourism
5
Q
what does this show?
A
that environmentalists, landowners, coastal managers and local people and businesses can all be kept happy
