Sentences with phrase «coastal defences on»
The National Rivers Authority wants to excavate material from the sand bar — called Race Bank — and use it to strengthen coastal defences on the Lincolnshire coast.
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In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.
The new defences at Mappleton are, says Pethick, «a classic example of a confrontational, small - scale approach to coastal planning on a coastline characterised by its large - scale problems».
The National Audit Office's report on British coastal defences last year highlighted breaches of Hurst Spit in Hampshire, which «are due mainly to the construction of concrete sea walls and groynes further to the west in Christchurch Bay, which interrupted the natural drift of replenishing material».
More than 500 million people worldwide depend on reefs for food, jobs and coastal defence.
This is a GCSE lesson on sea defences as a coastal management strategy.
Coastal planning: here in Germany the ongoing process of upgrading our coastal defences is based on the assumption of up to 1.5 meters of sea - level rise.