Sustainable Coastline Management Flashcards
What does the term sustainable managament mean ?
Projecting the coastline today that is the environmental, social and economic factors both now and long term.
Ensuring we don’t damage/ deplete
Future has resource
CBA
Carries out before implementing costal management.
Cost of implementing / demolition/ maintenance compared with potential benefits which could be the saving of economically viable land/ homes
Tangible
Intangible
Tangible
Monetary
Intangible
Other effects - visual impact
What is sustainable managament?
Holistic approach
Meaning different secretions of coastline are interlinked and function togther
What does ICZM focus on?
Peoples livelihoods.
Sustainable.
All stakeholders.
Long term.
Work with natural processes.
Activities like aquaculture/fishing/tourism.
Mitigation/ adaptation to climate change.
What kind of approach is the ICZM?
Eco system based
Operating within limits of natural resources
What processes especially does ICZM focus on?
Areas vulnerable to climate change/ natural hazards/ erosion/ flooding / sea level rise
What was coastal management like in past?
Sectoral
Local authorities made decisions for their stretch of the coastline.
Led to decisions which undermined each other/ failure to meet sustainability.
Maritime Spatial planning
Alongside ICZM
Stakeholders
Maps activities to see impacts to inform future planning.
Improve interaction between sea and land - offshore wind turbines to electricity distribution on land
What is every sediment cell given in uk
An SMP to help with coastline management.
Identifies all human/ natural processes occurring at coast.
Considered to closed but there will inevitably be transfers.
What 4 protective measures can be adopted in Uk?
Hold the line
Managed retreat
Advance the line
Do nothing
Hold the line
Current defences used to maintain coast , no new ones added
Managed retreat
Abandoned current defences and allow water in land to create own defence like salt marsh
Advance the line
Defences built to move shoreline seawards for protection of population
Do nothing
Exposed to natural processes
What factors are taken into consideration when implementing management options
Economic viability- gas refineries protected but caravan park not.
Wealth
Engineering solution - sea wall may not be suitable for that area.
Site of specific scientific interest
When were SMPs introducted
1995
How many smps
22 in England/ wales
Key features of smp
Risks associated with evolution of coast
Long term
Sustainable
Review to improve
Conflict
People will be protected - homes/ land. Happy. Don’t have to move.
People who aren’t , fear of losing house/ community / strong sense of place as lived experience.
