3.1.1.6 Case studies
Case study of a river catchment(s) at a local scale to illustrate and analyse the key themes above, engage with field data and consider the impact of precipitation upon drainage basin stores and transfers and implications for sustainable water supply and/or flooding.

Learning outcomes
These lessons will help students to:

• Illustrate how the hydrological system affects channel flow, by identifying the stores and transfers in the catchment.
• Analyse the relationships between inputs and outputs in a local river; be able to link the catchment characteristics to flows of water.
• To understand implications for flooding on a local river, and how this can be managed, and/or explain how water is abstracted, and how this can be managed sustainably.

Suggested timing
2 hours

3.1.3.4 Coastal management
Human intervention in coastal landscapes. Traditional approaches to coastal flood and erosion risk: hard and soft engineering. Sustainable approaches to coastal flood risk and coastal erosion management: shoreline management/integrated coastal zone management.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• Why different approaches to coastal management are needed.
• The costs and benefits of traditional approaches.
• How sustainable integrated approaches to coastal management can be used to protect coastal communities.
• The difference between shoreline management plans and integrated coastal zone management.
• The different values and attitudes towards coastal management.

Suggested timing
2 to 3 hours

3.1.3.2 Systems and processes

• Geomorphological processes: weathering, mass movement, erosion, transportation and deposition.
• Distinctively coastal processes: marine: erosion - hydraulic action, wave quarrying, corrasion/abrasion, cavitation, solution, attrition; transportation: traction, suspension (longshore/littoral drift) and deposition; sub-aerial weathering, mass movement and runoff.

Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:

• How weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition processes form coastal landscapes.
• Different types of mass movement occur in coastal environments, changing the coastal landscape.
• How geomorphological processes work together to form coastal landscapes.
• Distinctive marine processes form coastal landscapes.
• Coastal landscapes are dynamic due to marine processes.

Suggested timing
2 hours