Coasts
Subjects / Geography / Rivers, Coasts and Landforms
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A coastline is a section of land where the sea meets the land. The coastline has many distinctive features, some formed by erosion and some by the waves depositing material on or near the coastline. Coastal areas have long been used by people for living, working and enjoying leisure activities. For these reasons, we have often tried to protect the coastline from change. With the threat of climate change and rising sea-levels there has never been a more important time to understand what is happening along our coastline. This title examines the processes that form the features along our coastlines, before moving on to examine some of the management strategies that are used to preserve or protect coastal areas. Conflicts along the coastline and management issues are discussed, along with two case studies, the Holderness coastline and Barton-on Sea.
| Author: | Helen Nurton | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Stuart Blackburn | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-146-9 |
Chapters
- Coastal Processes
- Features Formed by Coastal Erosion
- Features Formed by Coastal Deposition
- Coastal Management Strategies and Conflicts - Part One
- Coastal Management Strategies and Conflicts - Part Two
- Coastal Management Issues
- Case Studies
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
- Coastal management issues - coastal erosion and tourism. The social, environmental and political problems caused by coastal erosion and tourism e.g. cliff collapse, coastal flooding, problems of resorts
- Constructive and destructive waves
- Describe characteristics of chosen area
- Explain the different types of wave erosion, weathering and mass movement that affects coastlines
- How and why do these conflicts arise?
- How are these landforms shaped by the effects of process, structure and time?
- How can conflicting interests be managed to minimise negative effects and maximise the positive effects of human activity on processes and landforms?
- How do physical processes help to create coastal management concerns?
- How do these processes contribute to the development of distinctive landforms?
- How does the sea deposit material?
- How does the sea erode?
- How does the sea transport?
- In what ways do natural processes and landforms produced affect human activity?
- In what ways does human activity affect natural processes and landforms?
- Increase locational knowledge
- Introduce coastal management strategies
- Introduce concept of cost benefit analysis
- Introduce different types of strategies
- Re-cap of coastal processes produce distinctive landforms which are subject to change
- Review problems faced by different groups of people
- The different values and attitudes of interested groups to coastal protection strategies and tourist development and which strategies constitute sustainable development
- The strategies used to solve problems such as coastal defences, eg. groynes, sea walls, extending the tourist season and providing new facilities
- What conflicts arise from the management of processes and landforms?
- What impact do these activities have on the coast?
- What is meant by processes of erosion, transport and deposition?
- What is the impact of these processes?
- What landforms are produced?
- What landforms give a coastline its distinctive character?
- Why do physical processes need to be managed?
- Why is management of land uses needed at the coast?
Titles
- A study of the causes, effects and management of cliff recession
- Coastal erosion, transport and deposition processes and the coastal features they produce
- How landforms are shaped by the effects of process, structure and time
- How landforms give a coastline its distinctive character
- Human activities help to create coastal management concerns
- Physical processes help to create coastal management concerns
- Sea deposition
- Sea erosion
- Sea transportation
- The advantages and disadvantages of these techniques, and the conflicts of interest involved
- The causes, effects and management of coastal erosion
- The earth's crust is modified by coastal processes which result in distinctive landforms
- The impact of erosion, weathering and mass-movement on the coast: cliffs and wave-cut platforms; headlands and bays; caves, arches stacks and stumps
- The impact of human activity on processes and landforms can cause conflict. This requires careful management and stewardship for landform sustainability
- The impact of transportation and deposition on the coast: beaches; spits, and bars
- The interaction between people and coastal environments
- There is an interaction between natural processes, landforms and human activity
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms - Coastal Deposition
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms - Coastal Erosion
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms - Coastal Transport
Chapters
- A case study. eg Holderness Coast, Norfolk Coast or Barton on Sea, Hampshire
- A study of significant local/regional distinctive landforms and their formation by the above processes
- A study of the local/regional coast to identify and distinguish between processes of weathering, erosion, transport and deposition
- An evaluation of the impact of the management techniques, both in the local area and more widely
- An evaluation of the success and impact of the management, both in the immediate area and in the wider context
- arches and stacks
- bars
- beaches
- Case studies emphasise the part played by the processes in the formation of at least one nationally or internationally known distinctive landform of erosion and one of deposition from coasts in any country or countries, e.g. Chesil Beach (coastal depositi
- Case studies emphasise the part played by the processes in the formation of at least one nationally or internationally known distinctive landform of erosion and one of deposition from coasts in any country or countries, e.g. South Stack, Anglesey (coastal
- caves
- Cliff recession with reference to process and geology
- Cliffs
- Coastal areas where management issues occur, eg. examples may Bangladesh (coastal flooding). The problems caused and their impact on different groups such as locals, governments and visitors
- Coastal areas where management issues occur, eg. examples may include a Spanish resort. The problems caused and their impact on different groups such as locals, governments and visitors
- Coastal areas where management issues occur, eg. examples may include the Holderness coast (erosion). The problems caused and their impact on different groups such as locals, governments and visitors
- Coastal processes produce distinctive landforms which are subject to change
- Describe and explain the formation of arches
- Describe and explain the formation of bars
- Describe and explain the formation of beaches
- Describe and explain the formation of caves
- Describe and explain the formation of cliffs and wavecut platforms
- Describe and explain the formation of headlands and bays
- Describe and explain the formation of spits
- Describe and explain the formation of stacks and stumps
- Description and explanation of arches
- Description and explanation of attrition
- Description and explanation of bays
- Description and explanation of beaches
- Description and explanation of caves
- Description and explanation of cliffs
- Description and explanation of corrasion (abrasion)
- Description and explanation of headlands
- Description and explanation of hydraulic action
- Description and explanation of low energy conditions associated with coasts
- Description and explanation of rolling
- Description and explanation of saltation
- Description and explanation of solution
- Description and explanation of spits
- Description and explanation of stacks
- Description and explanation of suspension
- Description and explanation of wave - cut platforms
- description of the landforms specified, and explanation of their formation in terms of the processes and factors involved, including the influence of geology and vegetation
- Explain how the sea transports and deposits material, for example longshore drift
- Hard engineering may include gabions
- Hard engineering may include revetments
- headlands
- In order to understand the need for management, the effects of marine and sub-aerial processes operating along the coast must be studied
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of arches
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of beaches
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of caves
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of cliffs
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of spits in the context of an example of a depositional coastline
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of spits in the context of an example of an erosional coastline
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of stacks
- Landforms and characteristic features and formation of wave cut platforms
- Local studies of the impact of coastal landforms on the activities of people and the impact of people on the processes and landforms studied. These studies should give rise to considerations of landform sustainability
- longshore drift
- Management issues and strategies to resolve conflicts where national/internationally known distinctive coastal landforms need sustainable solutions, e.g. building hotels into coastal cliffs in Spain
- Management issues and strategies to resolve conflicts where national/internationally known distinctive coastal landforms need sustainable solutions, e.g. coastal defences in one area causing loss of beaches/tourists in another in N.E. England
- Management issues and strategies to resolve conflicts where national/internationally known distinctive coastal landforms need sustainable solutions, e.g. loss of Nile delta due to silt retained in Aswan Dam
- Management issues arising from local/regional coastal landforms being put under pressure, e.g. removing gravel from beaches for garden/ landscape use
- Management techniques including hard engineering eg, gabions
- Management techniques including hard engineering eg, groynes
- Management techniques including hard engineering eg, sea walls
- Management techniques including soft engineering eg, managed retreat
- Management techniques including soft engineering eg, stabilising dunes
- Marine processes of deposition
- Marine processes of longshore drift
- Marine processes of wave erosion
- Opportunities exist for decision making exercises about the implementation of strategies
- Other possibilities include measures taken to meet the EU guidelines for Blue Flag awards land use conflicts e.g. dredging near Blackpool
- Processes of deposition
- Processes of erosion (hydraulic power, corrosion, corrasion, attrition, transport (traction, saltation, suspension, solution, longshore drift) and deposition
- Processes of transport - longshore drift
- Processes of transport - saltation
- Processes of transport - solution
- Processes of transport - suspension
- Processes of transport - traction
- Simple ideas of cost-benefit to evaluate the need for and type of management, including both hard and soft options
- Soft engineering may include managed retreat
- spits
- Stretch of coastline to illustrate erosional and depositional features and processes e.g. a headland as in the Lulworth Cove area
- Stretch of coastline to illustrate erosional and depositional features and processes e.g. Flamborough Head
- Stretch of coastline to illustrate erosional and depositional features and processes e.g. Hurst Castle
- Stretch of coastline to illustrate erosional and depositional features and processes e.g. Marsden Rock
- Stretch of coastline to illustrate erosional and depositional features and processes e.g. Spurn Point
- sub-aerial processes of mass movement
- sub-aerial processes of weathering
- sub-aerial processes of wind action
- the advantages and disadvantages of the strategies to different groups of people such as the impact further along a coast of building groynes and the possibility of overcrowding when new facilities are provided
- The effects in relation to both the human and natural environments
- The focus case study requires students to have studied one located stretch of coastline to illustrate the management issues related to coastal defence
- The impact of well-known distinctive coastal landforms on the activities of people and the impact of people on these landforms especially where they are of great scenic beauty causing problems for managing the landforms for sustainability, e.g. cliff eros
- The impact of well-known distinctive coastal landforms on the activities of people and the impact of people on these landforms especially where they are of great scenic beauty causing problems for managing the landforms for sustainability, e.g. pressure o
- The study should be chosen so that it covers the ideas stated in the content column (eg, Holderness, North Norfolk)
- The study should be chosen so that it covers the ideas stated in the content column (eg, Purbeck)
- The views of different groups and individuals
- There are differences of opinion as to how to reconcile these different activities, and different users may have different views on how to manage the impact of the natural processes
- This can illustrate the physical interdependence of environments
- tombolos
- Use the Environmental Agency website to research rates of cliff erosion
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