Geography GCSE
Managed Retreat
What Managed Retreat means in Geography GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Managed Retreat
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A soft engineering strategy involving the deliberate breaching of existing coastal defences to allow the sea to flood low-lying land, creating new salt marshes.
Allowing low-lying coastal areas to flood in a controlled way to create saltmarshes that act as natural flood buffers.
A soft engineering strategy that involves allowing low-value land to flood to create natural intertidal habitats.
Topics that use Managed Retreat
- A variety of physical processes interact to shape coastal landscapes (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Human activities can lead to changes in coastal landscapes which affect people and the environment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- The UK's climate change challenges (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Longshore Drift
- Adaptation
- Discordant Coastline
- Extreme Weather
- Hard Engineering
- Mitigation
- Soft Engineering
- SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems)
Using Managed Retreat in the exam
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