This document discusses various coastal landforms and processes, their impacts on people, and methods for managing the coastline and tourist activities. It specifically describes rotational landsliding, longshore drift, and different hard and soft engineering options for reducing coastal erosion, including beach nourishment, groynes, riprap, and planting vegetation. It also addresses managing tourist access through designating protected areas, limiting visitor numbers, and building infrastructure like footpaths, fences, and visitors centers.

1. Coastal Landforms
Processes
Landforms
Impact on people
Management by people

3. Rotational landslip
Created by the structure of the rocks
in the cliff
Needs to have permeable rock
sitting above impermeable rock.

4. Permeable rock
Impermeable rock
Water can infiltrate
Water cannot infiltrate
Water builds upFriction between
the rock layers is
reduced.
A slip zone is
created
Rotational landslip

5. Label the photograph to explain how the landslip has
been caused
Permeable rock
Impermeable rock
Water can infiltrate
Water cannot infiltrate
Water builds up
Friction between
the rock layers is
reduced.
A slip zone is
created
Extension:
Explain how abrasion at the cliff
base/foot could speed up this process.
Explain the hazards that these
processes could cause.

6. Longshore Drift
Foreshore Pebbles and
sediment moved
onto beach
Pebbles and
sediment moved
back down the
beach
Pebbles and
sediment moved
onto beach
Pebbles and
sediment moved
back down the
beach
Pebbles and
sediment moved
onto beach

7. Impacts of people at the coast – what’s this got to do with erosion?

8. Managing tourist activities – can you explain some different options?
Choose four of these and explain how each one would help manage/control tourist activities.
Create a Site of Special Scientific Interest of Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and
control how land is used and how and where building are placed.
Limit the number of people who can visit a particular area of the coast.
Have footpaths to control where people can walk, with clear signposts
Fence off areas to prevent people walking across or accessing them.
Build a visitors centre with a car park, to control where people can visit, and provide them
with information and educational material.
Control access to certain times of the year.

9. Managing the Coastline
Beach nourishment
Groynes Planting vegetation
Rip rap
Beach Artificially add beach material
to reduce impact of erosion.
Catch sand and pebbles carried
by longshore drift, and reduce
erosion.
Break up the power of waves
and reduce erosion.
Break up the power of waves
and reduce erosion.
Hold the beach or cliff
together with plant roots.

10. Hard or Soft?
Beach nourishment
Groynes Planting vegetation
Rip rap
HARD
HARD
HARD
SOFT

11. Hard or Soft?
Remove management and let the coastline flood and erode.

12. For an area that has suffered from a river flood:
Name the area:
Describe how the flood affected different groups of people:
Explain the causes of the flood:
UK Floods 2012 (River Exe; River Cam; River Avon; River Severn)
Motorists
Homeowners
Farmers
Emergency Services
Rainfall
Building on flood plains
Global Warming and Climate Change

13. East to West
Philippines, Viernam, Laos
Pacific Ocean, South China
Sea
Depression, Storm, Typhoon,
Storm
118-165 km per hour
Warm water at the equator,
where sun’s heat is
concentrated – a key
ingredient for such a low
pressure to form.

14. Deaths
High in Philippines
Low in Cambodia
Compared to Differently
In comparison In contrast
Whereas Nevertheless,
Similarly Overall,
Damage
High in Vietnam
Low in Cambodia
Other
Homelessness – High
in Philippines, Low in
Cambodia
Evacuation not
homelessness in
Vietnam.

15. Flooding
Impermeable surfaces
Lack of drainage
High population density
Rapid population growth
Impact of Quality of Life
Environment
Health
Work
Sewage
Contaminated water
Rotting materials
Lack of clean water
Disease spread easily
People can’t get around easily
People can’t go to work
Workplaces damaged and closed.
Quality of life will be reduced.

16. Stretch and Challenge
Describe and explain methods for controlling river flooding (refer to rivers you have
studied).
Hard management Soft Management
Weirs
Concrete Walls and Banks
Dams
Water meadows
Managed retreat