Geography -- Evaluating the methodology: justifying why we did it, explaining the technique and evaluating how good it was
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- Created on: 12-06-18 19:26
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- Evaluating the methodology -- justifying why we did it, explaining the technique and evaluating how good it was
- economic cost/benefit analysis
- Justification -- We did this to compare how much is spent on coastal management with what it protects
- Typically the government will aim for £1 cost for every £8 benefit
- The technique
- First we measured the length of each type fo coastal management in metres and the size fo beach nourishment and calculated their cost based off their typical cost per metre
- When measuring the lengths we used maps and local measurement sizes + trundle wheel
- For the benefit I walked around all the area it would protect and tallied building depending on their typical value
- Eg/ £300,00 for a small house
- Evaluation
- May not have counted every building as some areas were not accesible
- Need more categories
- We could improve this with the actual value of the buildings
- we did not count other values eg/ roads
- Our value to the typical cost of defences per metre was just an estimate
- Questionnaire
- Justification -- We did this to see what locals and tourists felt about the defences, if they felt that they were effective or if they needed to work
- Technique/method
- We used opportunity sampling but also stratified it to get an even mix of people
- We collected around 50 peoples responses
- We asked 'closed questions' with fixed options
- eg/ On a scale of 1 to 5 how much do you approve of the coastal management scheme in Minehead
- Evaluation + improvements
- We did get a large sample and a wide variety of people
- There were not many young people around and it was mid-week
- People were also unsure how to rate the defences on the number scale, so we might have varying results
- We could have got a wider sample by asking more locals who live there-- through a door to door survey
- Bi-polar evaluation
- Justification- I did this to judge the "non-economic" impacts fo the coastal defences eg/how ugly they are
- Method/approach
- I gave a score from +3 to -3 for each type of management for each factor
- Eg/ "attractiveness to ugliness" based on my opinion
- I gave a score from +3 to -3 for each type of management for each factor
- Evaluation / improvements
- It is a quick way to judge a range of important things about the defences
- It is very subjective, based on my own opinion
- economic cost/benefit analysis
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