Ollie's (not bored) group pressures assoc with coastal dev by Worthing College https://padlet.com/ESBTEC/unit2exemplar2 en-us 2016-03-10 11:53:32 UTC 2023-03-08 15:40:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Describe and justify the fieldwork you under took to investigate he pressures associated with costal development. https://padlet.com/ESBTEC/unit2exemplar2/wish/100175455
Coastal development is the increasing of the image of a place this can be done by increasing an individual defence or and area on the coastline its self. 

Our field work will be undertaken on the coast line of Worthing. Worthing is situated on the south coast of England and is a seaside town with a population of 100,000 with a 1.4% increase each year. Worthing is a developing town but has a lot of sea defences. it has multiple defences; sea wall, 43 Groynes and multiple rock armour sections, these are very effective ways of defending our coastline but it does cause pressures. the fieldwork we used was a litter count, this indicates the environmental quality of the area and how the council deals with this. This would indicate  how well the council feels about its coastline. This leads to one of the pressures from environmentalists because they feel the environment isn't being treated well enough as the sea defences are destroying the largest short chalk coastline in Europe. This destruction of habitat means indigenous species such as the lesser spotted dog fish and blennies are becoming threatened and there numbers declining. 

Our fieldwork will highlight pressures on Worthing coastline, a questionnaire will develop tourism pressures and congestion ideas this will indicate if the development of Worthing is increasing or decreasing this will be also found by researching the census this will enable you to compare past and present statistics.

in conclusion, the pressures on Worthing coastline are being addressed by the council, the fieldwork we used provided sufficient information to find these pressures, on the other hand  our fieldwork techniques may of provided bias information because we took it at one time only.








]]> 2016-03-10 12:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ESBTEC/unit2exemplar2/wish/100175455 Facts about Worthing https://padlet.com/ESBTEC/unit2exemplar2/wish/100175773
- It is a town located on the south coast of England between Brighton and Chichester and is approximately 60 miles south of London
- The population is about 100,000 and sees a rough growth of 1.4% every 10
-There is little in the way of ethnic diversity with 93.8% of the population being white and other minorities making up less than 10%
-The area of the town is rougly 12.5 square miles
- It is home to the Worthing Lumps, one of the best chalk reefs in Europe
-Home to 9 separate boroughs which make up the town
-Majority of the town identify as Christian or atheist but there is a growing Sunni population
-Notable inhabitants include: Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde and Billy Idol

]]> 2016-03-10 12:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ESBTEC/unit2exemplar2/wish/100175773 https://padlet.com/ESBTEC/unit2exemplar2/wish/100175808 Q4) Fieldwork techniques we would use to investigate our question.


One primary fieldwork method we would undertake to investigate our question would be a litter count of the area, thus showing how strong the impacts of potential tourism has affected the area, one advantage of this is it illustrates the local demographic of the area as well as a rough idea of how much tourism and how well the town, in our case Worthing, deals with the pressures of tourism, which is usually correlated to how developed and increasingly developed the town is. One drawback to a litter count however is to ensure a balanced judgement of the pressures of coastal development, a litter count will have to be done over several days in weeks otherwise one day could prove as a anomaly and therefore prove as a unbalanced judgement 


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