COASTAL MANAGEMENT

• what is the best protection on a coastline?


  a beach
• what are coasts under immense pressure for?

  development

  • this results in environmental damage and habitat destruction eg mangrove forests
• large numbers of people living at the coast are at risk of flooding or erosion and this will increase as sea levels rise
• what is there conflict between?

  human land use and natural proceses
• what do traditional approaches to intervention include?


  direct action- hard and soft engineetring