Managed Retreat
What Managed Retreat means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
A sustainable strategy where existing coastal defences are deliberately breached or removed, allowing the sea to flood a designated area of previously protected land.
A strategy that allows the sea to flood low-value land in a controlled way, creating salt marshes that buffer wave power.
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
- Coastal landscapes in the UK (AQA GCSE)
- 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
- Constructive waves
- Hard engineering
- Mass movement
- Soft engineering
- Weathering
- Abrasion
- Adaptation
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