Fieldwork and Research

General - Crowded Coasts - Rebranding

• Census Data
  --> pop. number and how/if it has changed
• Use of Google Earth (GIS)
  --> this allows you to plan and plot your route for your fieldwork, this means that you will only be going to relevant places
  --> The 'Timeline' feature allows you to see what the area looked like previously (affect of growth, pressures, flood risk, coastal retreat, defences), (previous land use/ current land use, age of buildings, transport)
  --> Photos can also be plotted into this resulting in an affective map of resources
  --> can work out rate of erosion + if land use has changed 
• Old Newspapers - to see if anything significant happened/changed 
• Place Check Forms
  www.geograph.org.uk - www.upmystreet.com -
  www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk 
• www.blueflag.org - quality of beaches + compare all UK beaches

General - Crowded Coasts - Rebranding - can be done in follow up research

• Pedestrian count/ traffic flow/ car parking - conducted in + out of season
  --> is tourism seasonal? infrastructure?
• Land use survey (on base map)
• Take photos
• Questionnaires (open questions)
• Mapping of tourist areas
• Score aesthetics, biodiversity, amenity, vulnerability 0-5
• Bipolar Analysis - -3 to +3
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Beach pollution surveys - less litter = better quality beach (blueflag.org)
• Biodiversity/species survey
• Environmental Quality Survey
• Drosscape Survey - mapping significant derelict/decayed areas

General - Crowded Coasts - Rebranding - can be done in fieldwork

• Score aesthetics, biodiversity, amenity, vulnerability 0-5
• Bipolar Analysis - -3 to +3
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• (Review Questionnaires)
• Tourism stats --> research local events (can be done before)
• Internet blogs/forums
• Local Newspapers/Websites(can be done before)
• Air quality/ pollution stats
• How is the area affected by human activity? - impacts?
• Has the rebranding been successful?
  --> have people returned to the area?
  --> measurements of success
•  What have impacts been/management?
• Is there any overuse of resources? pollution?
• Threats to high value coastal habitats?