Rising Sea level in East Anglia Case study IGCSE
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- Created on: 10-04-17 16:58
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- Thames barrier will cost £3 billion to maintain until 2050
- estimated £7billion to completely replace
- economic
- Thames barrier protects £80 billion of buildings
- Sea defences need strengthening which will be expensive
- 7000 homes worth combined £1 billion lost to sea within the next century
- Valuable agricultural land will be affected and lost by the sea
- environmental
- 22% of East Anglia's salt marsh lost by 2050
- Sea levels rise by 3mm a year for the past 15 years
- environmental
- Norfolk broads bring in £5 million annually to the local area in tourism which would be badly affected
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