Coasts: management

Question 1

How much was a house on beach road valued at in Happisburgh in 2006

Answer 1

£1

Question 2

What did the 2014 UK Environment agency estimate that the global cost of sea level rise by 2050 could reach

Answer 2

$1 trillion

Question 3

How far from the coast was the road that was protected in Mappleton, Holderness

Answer 3

34m

Question 4

What was destroyed in a storm event in Dawlish, Devon in 2014

Answer 4

railway line

Question 5

What is the hard-engineering megaproject in the Netherlands called

Answer 5

Deltawerken

Question 6

What years did Deltawerken take place between

Answer 6

1958-1997

Question 7

How much did the Deltawerken cost

Answer 7

$5 billion

Question 8

What was constructed between the islands making up the Eastern Schelt as part of Deltawerken

Answer 8

Dams and sluice gates

Question 9

What was built to act as flood walls around the islands as part of Deltawerken

Answer 9

embankments

Question 10

What year was Hurricane Harvey

Answer 10

2017

Question 11

How much dollars of damage did hurricane harvey cause

Answer 11

125 billion

Question 12

What did hurricane harvey cause lots of Americans to become

Answer 12

unemployed

Question 13

How many people are displaced per year by riverbank erosion in Bangladesh at least

Answer 13

50,000

Question 14

What % of people in the Seychelles live and work at the coast

Answer 14

80%

Question 15

What type of engineering is building structures

Answer 15

hard engineering

Question 16

What type of engineering is working with natural processes

Answer 16

soft

Question 17

What type of engineering is a groyne

Answer 17

hard engineering

Question 18

What type of engineering is a sea wall

Answer 18

hard engineering

Question 19

What type of engineering is a rip rap

Answer 19

hard engineering

Question 20

What type of engineering is a revetment

Answer 20

hard engineering

Question 21

What type of engineering is an offshore breakwater

Answer 21

hard engineering

Question 22

What type of engineering is a gabion

Answer 22

hard engineering

Question 23

What should be carried out before a coastal management project

Answer 23

cost-benefit analysis

Question 24

What type of engineering is beach nourishment

Answer 24

soft engineering

Question 25

what type of engineering is cliff regrading

Answer 25

soft engineering

Question 26

what type of engineering is cliff drainage

Answer 26

soft engineering

Question 27

What type of engineering is dune stabilisation

Answer 27

soft engineering

Question 28

what type of engineering is managed retreat

Answer 28

soft engineering

Question 29

How did Essex wildlife trust convert 84 hectares of farmland into salt marsh and grassland on the blackwater estuary

Answer 29

breached old embankments

Question 30

How much did the coastal realignment in Blackwater estuary cost

Answer 30

£645,000

Question 31

What could the mudflats and salt marshes in blackwater estuary absorb

Answer 31

storm surges

Question 32

When did Namibia launch a development policy as part of their Vision 2030

Answer 32

2013

Question 33

What did Namibia do to people to help them prepare themselves better for coastal management

Answer 33

reduce poverty

Question 34

What did Namibia do at Henties bay

Answer 34

beach nourishment

Question 35

How did Namibia enforce coastal zone management

Answer 35

made laws

Question 36

What does holistic mean

Answer 36

bigger picture

Question 37

What was brought in in 1992 to do whole zone management

Answer 37

ICZM

Question 38

What does Philippines ICZM have an emphasis on

Answer 38

environmental management

Question 39

What management policy of SMP is intervention through maintaining existing defenses and building new ones

Answer 39

Hold the existing shoreline

Question 40

What management policy of SMP is intervention is building new defenses on seaward side

Answer 40

Advance the existing shoreline

Question 41

What management policy of SMP is natural processes being monitored

Answer 41

Managed realignment of shoreline

Question 42

What management policy of SMP is doing nothing

Answer 42

no active intervention

Question 43

What type of rock is Happisburgh

Answer 43

boulder clay

Question 44

What does boulder clay at Happisburgh do when its wet

Answer 44

slump

Question 45

Where is Chittagong

Answer 45

Bangladesh

Question 46

How high were embankments in Chittagong raised in its coastal climate resilient infrastructure project

Answer 46

60cm

Question 47

How many tropical cyclone shelters were built in Chittagong

Answer 47

25