Coastal Management strategies need to consider not only physical processes but also factors associated with human geography.

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Coastal Management strategies need to consider not only physical processes but also factors associated with human geography.

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  Coastal management is a means of controlling development and change in the coastal zone and undertaking work according to agreed principles and criteria. By taking into account physical and human geography factors and people who come from the local areas views will help to ensure that there is good coastal management strategy.  There are usually three stages in a management strategy, understanding the reason for the problem, undertaking work to resolve the problem or reduce the effects of the problem and to improve prediction and make a contingency plan.

  Physical processes are things that occur on the earth’s surface, coastal processes are things that occur around the coastline examples of this would be erosion, deposition; sub aerial processes and long shore drift.

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  Human geography is related to people and the way people interact with their surroundings. Examples of this would be the movement of people, the management of areas where people live.

  Coastal management schemes are very important because a large amount of the worlds population live and work on the coast, coastlines can be a very important way for an area to boost their economy; usually through tourism.

  There are two types of coastal management one is soft engineering which is ways of managing the coast with out using structural techniques. This is things’ such as beach nourishment, ...

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