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What is the difference between hard and soft engineering management of coastal erosion?
Hard Management: Hard management is the more traditional response to erosion and involves the construction of structures which stop wave energy reaching the shore, or absorb and reflect the energy. These have often caused problems themselves, such as increasing erosion elsewhere, and soft construction techniques have become more popular because of this.
Soft management: These techniques involve promoting natural systems such as beaches and salt marshes which protect the coast, and are usually cheaper to construct and maintain than hard management techniques, and may be self-sustaining.
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What is soft coastal engineering?
i think soft engineering is stuff to make the waves break quicker so it will minimism the eroding to make it slower.
What were the advantages of the canals?
They connected the middle of the country with the coastal cities
How could Holbeck hall have been prevented from coastal erosion?
I know, not
Amount of force created by wave on coastal structure?
3.5 kpa will be considered.................
How does a groyne work?
Groynes are placed so as to reduce coastal (or riverside) erosion.In the coastal case, they interrupt the flow of sediment along the coast, and accumulate it alongside the groyne. They are only temporary, though with a life of decades.Riverside groynes rely upon their mass to prevent current erosion of the riverbank. They will not usually accumulate sediments in any great quantity.Read more: How_do_groynes_work
