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AS Unit F761: Managing Physical Environments
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COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS
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Core Content and Case studies
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Part 1: What processes and factors are responsible for distinctive coastal landforms?
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Coastal Processes
Whole video intro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWEJq03NBao
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/geography/coastal-processes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/coastal/coastalprocesses_video.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/coastal/
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Weathering and erosion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/weathering-erosion-and-coastal-features/4022.html (video)
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/07/weathering-and-erosion.html (powerpoint presentation)
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Wave formation and beach types
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/understanding-wave-formation/4018.html (video)
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Longshore drift and spits
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-coastline-longshore-drift-and-spits/3086.html (video)
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/06/longshore-drift-animation.html (video)
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Case study: Spurn Head spit (Depositional landform) - Holderness coastline
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-spit-formation-at-spurn-head.htm
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Case study: Dawlish Warren spit, South Devon
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-formation-and-use-of-dawlish-warren-spit.htm
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Erosional landforms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/coastal/erosion_landforms_video.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastal-landforms-blowholes-and-cliff-slumping/3085.html (video)
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Wave-cut platforms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/wave-cut-platforms-and-headland-erosion/4021.html (video)
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Case study: Old Harry stack (Erosional landform) - Dorset
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/old-harry-rocks-dorset/3244.html (video)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/old-harry-rocks-coastal-processes-and-landforms/3245.html (video)
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/12/stack-formation.html (video)
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Depositional landforms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/coastal/dep_landforms_video.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/depositional-coastlines/4023.html (video)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/landforms-created-by-longshore-drift-and-coastal-deposition/9965.html (video)
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Coastal landforms - West Wales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastal-landforms-west-wales/3084.html (video)
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Coastlines affected by sea level change - isostasy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastlines-affected-by-sea-level-change-isostasy/4025.html
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Isostatic and Eustatic change - explained
http://ilkley.school-site2.net/Resources/user/docs/Geography/Coastal%20Case%20Studies/Isostatic%20and%20Eustatic%20sea%20level%20change.pdf
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Part 2: How can coasts be protected from the effects of natural processes?
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/geography/deltas-and-estuaries-and-changes-to-coastal-areas/revise-it/human-influences-at-th
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Coastal protection and management
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/coastal/coastalmanagement_video.shtml (video)
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/12/coastal-management.html (video)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/managed-retreat-to-counter-the-impact-of-rising-sea-levels/3194.html (video)
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-are-advantages-of-groynes.html (video)
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/06/coastal-processes-and-management.html
(video)
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Case Study: Hard engineering strategies
Mappleton on the Holderness Coast (NE England)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastal-erosion-at-holderness-east-yorkshire/3187.html (video)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/a-farm-is-threatened-by-coastal-erosion-at-holderness-east-yorkshire/3189.html (video)
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-hard-enginnering-at-mappleton.htm
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Case Study: Soft engineering - Porlock, Somerset
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastal-management-strategies-sea-defences-and-managed-retreat/3243.html (video)
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Case study: Hard engineering - Minehead, Somerset
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-hard-engineering-at-minehead.htm
Case Study - Hard Engineering - Swanage, Dorset
http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/fieldwork/resource/jurassic-coast-fieldwork-weekend/swanage/photos3/
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Part 3: In what ways can coastal areas be a valuable economic and environmental resource?
Choose from:
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Case study: Tourism on the Costa del Sol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/1569.html (video)
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/a-level-gg-tourism-case-study-how-does-the-costa-del-sol-fit-with-butlers-model.htm
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Case Study - The Solent
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-an-economic-resource-the-solent.htm
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Case study: Studland, Dorset - Tourism, fishermen, locals, National Trust
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-coastal-conflicts-at-studland.htm
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Case study: Hallsands, Devon - Gravel extraction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/coastal-erosion-at-hallsands-causes-and-effects/9967.html (video)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/hallsands-destruction-of-coastland/3242.html (video)
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-gravel-extraction-at-hallsands.htm
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Spurn Head spit - Holderness coastline
http://abbeyfieldhumanities.blogspot.com/2008/12/life-on-coastal-spit-spurn-head.html (video)
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Palm Resort - Dubai
What is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRJa27IgVlQ
What have been the environmental impacts?
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0823-tina_butler_dubai.html
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Conflicts - Developing Aberdeen harbour
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/development-of-aberdeen-sea-front/4036.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/aberdeen-harbour-a-conflict-of-interest/4037.html
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The management of a coastal wetland - The Camargue, France
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-level-gg-case-study-coastal-wetland-management.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-camargue-in-provence/11571.html
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Part 4: What are the management challenges associated with the development of coastal areas?
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Case study: Abbotshall - East Anglia and Essex coastline
http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/geography/geography/as-geography-coastal-environments-management-at-abbotshall.htm
http://www.essexwt.org.uk/visitor_centres__nature_reserves/abbotts_hall_farm/
http://www.saltmarshmanagementmanual.co.uk/management/ManCaseStudiesManReal1.htm
http://www.eacg.org.uk/
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397948§ion=1.2.3
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Keyword glossary
Coastal processes
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/geography/coastal-processes/remember-it/s-cool-revision-summary
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Coastal change
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/geography/deltas-and-estuaries-and-changes-to-coastal-areas/remember-it/s-cool-revision-summ
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Created by D. Drake
Abbeyfield School Humanities
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