Sustainable Coastal Management

Question 1

What do all coastal management have to have before they go ahead?

Answer 1

A cost benefit analysis.

CBA.

Question 2

What does CBA’s take in to account?

Answer 2

Social.
Economic.
Political.
Environmental issues.

Question 3

What is a CBA?

Answer 3

A CBA estimates and totals up the equivalent money value of the benefits and costs to the community of projects to establish whether they are worthwhile

Question 4

What happens when the costs have been established?

Answer 4

They compare them with the expected benefits.

Question 5

Costs and benefits are 2 types;

what are they?

Answer 5

Tangible.

Intangible.

Question 6

What does tangible mean?

Answer 6

Where the costs and benefits are known and can be given a monetary value.

Question 7

What does intangible mean?

Answer 7

Where costs may be difficult to assess but are important.

Question 8

A project is most likely to go ahead if…

Answer 8

Costs exceed the benefits.

Question 9

What doe SMPS correspond with?

Answer 9

Sediment cells.

Question 10

How many SMPS are there around the uk?

Answer 10

22.

Question 11

What are SMPS designed to do?

Answer 11

To identify the most sustainable approach to managing the flood and coastal erosion risks to the coastline.

Question 12

Bulletpoint 4 key features of SMPS?

Answer 12

Sustainable.
Policy agenda for coastal defence management planning.
Long-term management polices for 22nd century.

Question 13

Note 4 examples of SMPS?

Answer 13

SMP 1 Scottish Border to the River Tyne.
SMP 8 Essex and South Suffolk.
SMP 14 Isle Of Wight.
SMP 19 Anchor Head to Lavernock Point.

Question 14

What does the Integrated Coastal Management Aim to do?

Answer 14

Coordinate application of the different policies affecting the coastal zone and related to activities such as nature protection, aquaculture, fisheries and industry.
Contributes to sustainable development.

Question 15

What does ICM cover?

Answer 15

The full cycle of information collection, planning, decision making, management and monitoring of implementation.
Important to include all stake holders.

Question 16

How was Coastal management viewed in the past?

Answer 16

Viewed as a sectoral approach, where local authorities made decisions for their stretch of the coast line and other agencies and interest groups tried to manage their particular environment, cause or social group.

Question 17

What does ICZM aim to do?

Answer 17

Co-ordinate policies that affect the coastal zone and the activities that take place there including fishing, aquaculture, shipping, tourism.

Question 18

How does ICZM contribute to sustainlable development?

Answer 18

By employing an ‘eco-system based approach’ that operates within the limits of natural resources and eco systems.

Question 19

What is the Martime Spatial Planning?

Answer 19

They build on and work alongside ICZM by adopting some of the techniques already employed by the land use planners.
Involves mapping activities of all stakeholders in a particular coastal zone.

Question 20

What is the Martime Spatial Planning aiming to play an integral role in?

Answer 20

Improving the interaction between the sea and land bases activities including ;
connecting offshore wind turbines to the electricity distribution network of land.

Question 21

Name 5 aims of coastal management?

Answer 21

Defence and mitigation against flooding and erosion.
Stabilise beach affected by LSD.
Stabilise sand dune.
Protect fragile eustarine environments.