All of the following are legitimate outputs of a coastal management process EXCEPT
Answer: A
No plan can guarantee that outcome against a rising sea. The other three are the standard products of a properly conducted coastal management process. No plan can promise that nothing will be lost. Honesty about that is part of a credible plan.
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The single most important principle in coastal management is arguably to
Answer: B
Correct answer: work with natural processes rather than against them
Everything in the subject follows from it: planning by sediment cell, allowing beaches to move, choosing realignment where the line cannot be held, and preferring nourishment and habitat to hard structures where there is room. Resisting the processes is expensive, transfers the problem downdrift, and eventually fails; working with them is cheaper, more durable and adapts as the sea rises.
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