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Geography
Research on geography described by scientists at University of Ulster
January 3rd, 2009
"The concept of 'working with natural processes' has wide currency in coastal zone management. It is one of eight principles for integrated coastal zone management listed in a recent EU Recommendation," scientists in North Ireland report. "From a geomorphological perspective, the concept, however, has a range of imparted meanings that range from (1) direct human intervention in coastal processes using 'hard engineering' structures that causes alteration of wave patterns, through (2) a variety of 'soft engineering' approaches to (3) non-intervention and proactively taking steps to enable the coastline to fluctuate freely in response to natural processes. These different...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-03)
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