Geography A-Level
Sustainability and Resilience
What Sustainability and Resilience means in Geography A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Sustainability and Resilience
The shift from short-term 'hard' engineering fixes to long-term strategies that accommodate natural processes and climate change impacts, such as eustatic sea-level rise.
Topics that use Sustainability and Resilience
- Coastal Landscapes and Change (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Coastal Management and Human Interference
- Coastal Risk and Resilience
- Coastal Systems and Flux
- Contemporary Coastal Vulnerability
- Deformation and Discontinuity
- Discordant Coast
- Dynamic Equilibrium
- Eustatic and Isostatic Interplay
Using Sustainability and Resilience in the exam
Definition questions usually carry one or two marks, and examiners look for the precise wording. Write the definition from memory, check it against the version above, and then use the term in a longer answer on the same topic so it sticks.
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