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"Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, address the new realities of the environment and move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it."--

Coastal zone management. --- Political geography --- Coastal engineering. --- Shore protection. --- Beach erosion --- Coast protection --- Coast protective works --- Coastal zone management --- Coastal engineering --- Hydraulic engineering --- Reclamation of land --- Engineering --- Shore protection --- Coast ecosystem management --- Coastal ecosystem management --- Coastal management --- Coastal resource management --- Coastal resources management --- Coastal zone ecosystem management --- Coasts --- CRM (Coastal resource management) --- Zone management, Coastal --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Regional planning --- Prevention --- Management --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environmental planning --- Physical geography --- coastlines --- climate change