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- Milankovitch cycles100,000 year cycle →90,000 years glacials( cold + ice), 10,000 interglacial (warm, -ice)
- Rocky Coasts1,000 km of the UK's coastline, mainly north and west
- South Dorset Coast (Jurassic Coast)- concordent coastline - limestone and clay- AND discordent- headlands and bays present
- Holderness Coast- examining coastal processes and their associated features- coastal erosion and deposition present- Flamborough head to Spurn Point- erosional features present - caves, arches and stacks- Spurn Point - evidence of longshore drift - depositional landform
- Seychelles- 80% of residents live and work at the coast
- Maldives - impacts of climate change- 1.5 meters above sea level- large population of 400,000, too large to be accomodated elsewhere.
- Tuvalu - impacts of climate change- low-lying country at risk from coastal flooding and therefore vulnerable to climate change- risk of environmental refugees, water contamination- small land mass restricts Tuvalu's economy- 6-7 co2 emitted every year, animals drowning
- Intergrated coastal zone management (ICZM)- 1992- manages the entire coastal zone- recognises stakeholders- long-term
- DEFRA policies- No active intervention- Hold the line- Strategic realignment- Advance the line
- Haiti (LIC)- 2010- richter 7- 320,000 dead- 1 milliion homeless- spread of disease-Cholera- 1in5 lost jobs- $430m in aid.
- Tohoku (HIC)- 2011- richter 9- 15,854 dead- 1/2m homeless- Fukushima Tsunami- Damage = $235b- 3 min warning
- Monserrat- 1995-97- destructive plate- pyroclsatic flows/ash- 2/3rds evacuated- 75% farmland lost- £42m in aid
- Iceland- 2010- constructive- glacial/ash cloud- predicted- 0 dead- livestock indoors- 107,000 flights cancelled- Industries lost money from lack of flights and trade - Kenyan farmers
- Hurricane Katrina- 2005- South-Eastern states of the US- Cat 4- 6m storm surges- 1m homeless- 1200 drowned- $50b aid
- Typhoon Haiyan- 2013- Philippines- cat 5- 195 mph winds- +10,000 dead- 400,000 people evacuated.
- UK heatwave- 2003- 39℃- 2,000 heat related deaths- hosepipe bans- farming affected
- Sahara- low rainfall - less than 70mm a year- diurnal temperature- 42℃- solar power- 2 million homes in Tunisia- minerals - phosphate oil and gas
- Amazon- 750,000km sq destroyed- 70% due to cattle ranching- trans Amazonia highway- stores 100b tonnes of co2- lost 55m tonnes of soil- selective logging, ecotourism, afforestation
- Holderness Coast- boulder clay- 1.8m land lost a year- 11km protected by hard engineering- Easington gas terminal- Mappleton- rock armour= £2m
- Spurn Head- Holderness Coast- LSD/ deposition- estuary- hook/curve- change wind direction- mud flats- salt marshes