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Coastal Processes provides an essential resource for teachers and students using beaches and coasts as their natural environment in fulfilling the requirements of the Level 3 NCEA Achievement Standard Demonstrate understanding of how interacting natural processes shape a New Zealand geographic environment.
It will help students gain a comprehensive and thoroughly geographical understanding of the natural and human processes at work at the interface of land and sea. A highly accessible text, adaptable for all Level 3 Geography students, it also contains extension material by way of stimulus and further direction for research for those students aiming at Excellence (Level 3), and for Level 4 scholarship candidates.
As well as a general overview of all coastal landscapes and the processes at work within them, the book contains material on: global patterns and global issues New Zealands coastal environment allowing students to place their local study in its national setting; issues in coastal management in New Zealand and ways in which different perspectives can be reconciled; the application of coastal geography principles to the art and science of surfing.
The activities in Coastal Processes have been designed to guide students to a thorough understanding of the processes, phenomena and elements of coastal landscapes.
Featured in the 18 December 2017New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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