Year 7 - Geography
Coastal management
Coasts: what shapes life at the coast?
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils how physical and human processes shape our coastline. Pupils will also learn about the threats and challenges coastlines face in a warming world.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain why different stakeholders have varying views about coastal management.
Key Notes
- Management plans are in place in order to protect the coast.
- In England and Wales, local councils work with the government to implement Shoreline Management Plans.
- Hard and soft engineering can be used to help protect coastal areas from erosion.
- There are different groups of stakeholders in coastal areas.
- Different stakeholders support different coastal management plans.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hard engineering: building fixed structures to reduce coastal erosion
- soft engineering: working with nature to reduce coastal erosion
- risk: the possibility that something bad or unpleasant, such as an injury, might happen
- stakeholder: a person who has an interest in a given resource
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That everyone involved or invested in a plan must want said coastal management project to happen to protect the coastline of an area.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Management plans are in place in order to protect the coast. In England and Wales, local councils work with the government to implement Shoreline Management Plans.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'hard engineering'
building fixed structures to reduce coastal erosion.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: That everyone involved or invested in a plan must want said coastal management project to happen to protect the coastline of an area. Correction: In almost all cases, there are a wide range of opinions about coastal management projects, some in support of the plans and others not in favour for various reasons that they feel are important.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Depositional coastal landforms Study Guide
- Erosional coastal landforms Study Guide
- GIS: Visualising and Analysing coastal erosion Study Guide
- Processes shaping the coastline Study Guide
- Protecting the UK's coastline Study Guide
- The future of global coasts Study Guide
- The impacts of climate change on Tuvalu Study Guide
- The UK's coastline Study Guide
- Threats to the UK's coastline Study Guide
- Tuvalu: An island nation Study Guide
- Waves and tides Study Guide
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