Geography A-Level
Coastal Risk and Resilience
What Coastal Risk and Resilience means in Geography A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Coastal Risk and Resilience
Evaluation of human vulnerability to coastal hazards, including storm surges and sea-level rise, and the efficacy of hard versus soft engineering interventions within sediment cells.
Topics that use Coastal Risk and Resilience
- Coastal Landscapes and Change (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Coastal Management and Human Interference
- Coastal Systems and Flux
- Contemporary Coastal Vulnerability
- Deformation and Discontinuity
- Discordant Coast
- Dynamic Equilibrium
- Eustatic and Isostatic Interplay
- Eustatic Change
Using Coastal Risk and Resilience in the exam
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