Coastal Hazards in the UK

 The coastal hazards in the UK are very severe and shallow on many different coasts around the Isles. The east coast of the UK is the hardest hit, with the erosion rate the fastest in Yorkshire and the Humber, where 56 percent of the coastline is at risk. The coastal erosion in those eastern coastlines is hit all day long by large ocean waves and high wind speeds gusting. Another part of the UK near England is also experiencing high-risk erosion because "around a third of the coast in the south of England is being actively eroded — threatening such areas as Norfolk, Suffolk, and East/West Sussex."  Britain's coastlines have been dramatically receding as an effect of Climate Change. There is evidence of this in a 2020 article from the UK's Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership "found that 3700km of UK coastline is experiencing greater than 10cm of erosion per year." The coastlines are eroding away consistently more than in other areas, but the coastal erosion is still a hazard.

The coastal hazard mitigations the UK has in place are built to reduce as much erosion as possible. These structures that are built are "hard structural/engineering options that use structures constructed on the beach (seawalls, groynes, breakwaters/artificial headlands) or further offshore (offshore breakwaters). These options influence coastal processes to stop or reduce the rate of coastal erosion." The coastal erosion is primarily mitigated by some of the structures listed by engineers that install them in the most eastern coastal areas of the UK since it is the most affected. The UK also takes precautions in regulating street roads and sidewalks near the coastline by paving new cement a couple times each decade to prevent hazardous actions to its citizens that live near the coast.

Sources: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-10-uk-coastal-towns-17289733

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