Lesson 16

Question 1

What is sustainable management of a coast?

Answer 1

long term approach that considers future threats such as sea level rise and storm surges. In some cases this may mean abandoning coastlines, such as low land areas or those where coastal erosion may increase. Such plans may conflict with the wishes of local people, who may lose their land, home, job and sense of community and feel that there is no social justice.

Question 2

What must coastal management be?

Answer 2

bearable
viable
equitable

Question 3

How is a coastline managed economically?

Answer 3

cost effective

Question 4

How is a coastline managed environmentally?

Answer 4

adaptation to sea level rise

Question 5

How is a coastline managed socially?

Answer 5

impacts on people living/working in area

Question 6

How are Namibia using coastal management that is Cost-effective?

Answer 6

National policy on climate change

Development policy 2013, strengthen coastline maintain ecosystems

Question 7

How are Namibia using coastal management that has Impacts on people living and working in the coastal zone?

Answer 7

Normal actions, low cost not directly related to sea level rise. reducing risk of poverty

Question 8

How are Namibia using coastal management that is Adapting to sea-level rise?

Answer 8

Normal actions, low cost not directly related to sea level rise.

Question 9

What is involved in normal actions? (4)

Answer 9

not directly related to sea level
preventing development
stabilising sand dunes
reduce risk and poverty

Question 10

What is involved in additional actions? (4)

Answer 10

maintain sea level
soft engineering
mapping vulnerable;e areas
laws to in force management

Question 11

What is involved in expensive actions? (3)

Answer 11

protecting people and buildings from sea level
hard engineering
relocating

Question 12

What was the result of the cost benefit analysis in Essex?

Answer 12

soil quality and land value low, not worth maintaining

Question 13

What was land in Essex turned into by Essex Wildlife trust?

Answer 13

salt marsh

Question 14

What was happened in the coastal realignment project in Essex?

Answer 14

provided sustainable sea defences
salt marshes and mud flats absorb sea and storm surges with out any local damage and reducing water volume travelling which could have flooded.
Wildlife benefits

Question 15

What were the concerns with the coastal realignment protect in Essex?

Answer 15

People concerned it would change local water environments
fishermen concerned it would kill fish or water level change and remove them
increased erosion and flooding of habitats
se. reducing risk of poverty