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Question: Human impacts at the coast intended to stabilise a coastline can also lead inadvertently to increased coastal erosion. Discuss.
Answer: Because of the high concentration of settlements, industries, transport facilities and recreational developments on coastlines, the pressures placed on coastal landforms are often acute (Nordstrom, 1994). Because of this humans have resorted to protecting their coastlines. There are many ways in which this has been undertaken, some of these protection methods work better than others. Some methods actually do slow down the effect of coastal erosion but some methods dramatically increase the speed of coastal erosion causing major devastation over time....(short extract)
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Details: Mark: Not available | Subject: Geography | Course: Geography | Level: A-Level | Year: Not applicable | Document type: Essay* | Words: 1345 | References: No | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: August 02, 2009 | Essay ID: 2006
