Options for coastal management

Question 1

What does hold the line mean?

Answer 1

Maintain the existing coastal defences

Question 2

What does advance the line mean?

Answer 2

Build new coastal defences further out to sea than the existing line of defence

Question 3

What does do nothing mean?

Answer 3

Build no coastal defences at all, deal with flooding and erosions as it happens

Question 4

What does retreat the line mean?

Answer 4

Just move people away from the coast