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Managing Fluvial and Coastal Environments
Category: A-Level Geography
"It was not until humankind first started to manipulate and redistribute water in time and space that the earliest western civilisations appeared over 5000 years ago." (Chapter 1)
See the sample pages below.
Topics covered include:
Chapter 1: Human interaction in coastal and fluvial environments; water supply and increasing demand; waste and water pollution; flood plain development.
Chapter 2: Modern approaches to river management; the need for and the impacts of, channelisation; the engineering solution versus the need for habitat protection; the Ballysally Blagh, Coleraine.
Chapter 3: Basin management; traditional strategies; new approaches; the Colorado river and the Hoover Dam.
Chapter 4: Dynamic coasts and the challenge to human management; coastal evolution; sediment; North Carolina, USA; hard and soft coastal protection; Birling Gap.
Chapter 5: Sand dunes as a sensitive environment; structure and formation; change in coastal dunes; Murlough Dunes.
Rosemary Charlton is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and water resource management. She is currently carrying out research to predict future resource availability in Ireland under a changing climate.
Julian Orford is Professor of Physical Geography in the School of Geography at Queen’s University, Belfast. He started lecturing at Queen’s in 1977, after doing postgraduate research on coastal sedimentation at Salford (MSc) and Reading (PhD). He lectures on coastal environments in terms of their physical development and human management. His research now concentrates on coastal morphological response to both sea-level change, and storminess related to climatic change. He has been Head of the School of Geography, QUB, since 2001.
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