Soft engineering strategies
- Created by: Jenny Jones
- Created on: 08-04-14 16:45
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- Soft engineering strategies
- a sustainable approach to managing the coats without using artificial structures
- Beach nourishment
- the addition of sand/shingle to a beach to make it higher
- sediment is bought locally so it blends with existing beach material
- Disadvantages
- needs constant maintenance
- Advantages
- fairly cheap and easy to maintain
- increases tourist potential by creating a bigger beach
- Dune regeneration
- sand dunes are effective but easily damaged and destroyed by trampling
- marram grass can be planted to stabilise dunes and help them develope
- Advantages
- fairly cheap
- maintains a natural environment for wildlife and people
- Disadvantages
- time consuming to plant the marram grass
- can be damaged by storms
- March creation
- involves allowing low-lying coastal areas to become flooded by the sea becoming salt marshes
- salt marshes are effective barriers to the sea
- Advantages
- cheap option compared with maintaining expensive sea defences
- creates a habitat for wildlife
- Disadvantages
- farmers/landowners need to be compensated
- land lost as it is flooded by the sea
- Flood warnings
- Environment agency warms people about flooding through TV, radio, newspapers and the internet
- Advantages
- impact of flooding is reduced- warning give people time to prepare
- Disadvantages
- warning don't stop a flood from happening
- people may not hear or have acess to warnings
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