CGP Coastal Management

• Coastal Management

  Managing the coast to protect it from erosion and flooding
• Options for Coastal Management

  • Defend
  • Advance the line
  • Managed retreat
  • Do nothing
• Hard Engineering Defences

  • Involve built structures
• Hard Engineering Defences

  • Expensive
  • Disrupt natural processes
• Soft Engineering Defences

  • Involve coaxing natural processes along
• Soft Engineering Defences

  • Cheaper
  • Integrate with natural environment
  • Create habitats
• Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)


  Considers all elements of the coastal system (land, water, people, economy) when developing a management strategy
• Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs)


  Plans for managing different stretches of coastline within a sediment cell