Coasts

• Holdrness Facts:

  • Coastline is 75Km long
  • Only 9.2Km is protected
  • Made out of soft-resistant rock (Boulder clay)
  • A large fetch which generates high energy waves
  • Houses have been destroyed and farmland flooded
• Holderness (Bridlington, Withernsea ,Easington and Hornsea):

  • These places get protected as they are the 3 main populated areas
  • But Easington is protected as it is a mojor gas terminal for the area
  • Other places not being protected as it is too costly and the coastline erodes too quickly
• Holderness stakeholder:

  • National Government agencies
  • Local government
  • national farmers union
  • environmental stakeholders
• Bangladesh coastal flooding (Facts):

  • very low lying coastline (90% of land lives less than 1 metre above sea level.
  • suffers from cyclones due to position in the bay of Bengal
  • Lies on the flood planes of 3 major rivers
  • Annual floods due to snowmelt, monsoon rainfalls and high tides
• Bangladesh (Vegetation remval):

  • 71% of their mangrove is retreating
  • converting forests into lucrative shrimp farms accounts for 25% of this loss
• Bangladesh (climate change):

  • one metre of sea level rise in the south will entail a 17%-20% loss of territory
  • Tropical cyclones cost Bangladesh $1bn annually
  • 20Mn people had their drinking water affected