Soft Cliffs: Prediction of Recession Rates and Erosion Control Techniques Technical Report
- Author
- Lee E M and Clark A R
- Year
- 2002
- Journal / Source
- R&D Project FD2403/1302
- Publisher / Organisation
- Thomas Telford
- Pages
- vi + 121
- ISBN / ISSN
- 07277-3110-6
- Summary
- Not a NZ report A non-technical summary of the Technical Report: The Investigation and Management of Soft Rock Cliffs. In order to manage coastal cliffs it is important to have access to accurate and reliable information on past and future cliff recession patterns and trends, the level of risk to coastal communities, and the range of management strategies and erosion control techniques that may be suitable in different cliff environments. The need for high priority research into the investigation and management of eroding coastal cliffs was identified by MAFF’s Advisory Committee on Flood and Coastal Defence Research and Development in 1992 (Advisory Committee 1992). As a result, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA; formerly MAFF) commissioned High Point Rendel (formerly Rendel Geotechnics) in association with HR Wallingford, and supported by the Cambridge Coastal Research Unit (now Newcastle University) and the River and Coastal Environments Research Group (RACER; Portsmouth University) to undertake a broad-based study of coastal cliffs in England and Wales.