This lesson aims to allow students to gain an understanding of the different ways to manage the coast. It looks at a range of soft and hard engineering strategies, and encourages students to think about the advantages and disadvantages of these strategies, before debating which of these would be the best for a particular coast (this lesson uses Southend but this can easily be changed for a different location).

By the end of the lesson students will be able to answer the following key questions:
- What are the different types of coastal management?
- Which coastal management is the best and why?