SMP vs ICZM

• What does SMP mean?


  Shoreline Management Plan
• What does ICZM mean?


  Integrated coastal management zone
• How many sediment cells are there in the UK?

  11
• How do the cells link in with SMP?


  Each sediment cell is considered a management zone
• In the SMP, what is considered for each management zone?


  Natural Processes

  Human Activity

  Management decision
• What is the idea behind SMP?


  Just focusing on a particular cell, as there is believed to be little impact on neighboring cells. They consider them a closed system
• Who recommends SMP use?


  DEFRA

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• What are the 4 options for a SMP?

  Hold the line

  Advance the Line

  Managed Retreat/ strategic realignment

  Do nothing/ no active intervention
• What does hold the line mean?


  Maintaining the current shoreline position usually with hard engineering techniques
• What does advance the line mean?


  Extending the coastline out to sea by encouraging the build up of a wider beach. Uses beach nourishment and groynes
• What does managed retreat mean?


  Allowing the coastline to move further inland in a controlled way, usually creating salt marshes to protect the land behind
• What is the do nothing approach?


  Letting nature do what it wants and allowing coastal erosion and flooding of low lying land. not maintaining the defences
• What is the aim of an ICZM?


  Establish sustainable levels of economic and social activity
• WHat does the ICZM approach mean for managment style?


  It takes huge areas of the coast and manages them as a whole rather than on a town by town basis.
• Why could the ICZM approach be better?


  It considers that coastal systems are not closed and that one change somewhere will lead to a change somewhere else.
• 2013 EU ICZM initiative


  Basically is an approach that will balance environmental health, ecological health, offshore energy production, tourism, trade and mitigation of climate change