Controlled Assessment Title

This is the title that we will be exploring with students:

Explain how coastal management strategies used in your chosen area have taken conflicting views into account.

It is one of four Fieldwork Focus titles which are provided for 2016-17 for OCR 'B' Geography.

We will explore various aspects of the title, and what it means, and how it will be answered over the year to come, but you may want to start by thinking about the following questions:
- what do we mean by the word 'management' in this context?
- how are coastal areas managed? what are the strategies used? where are different strategies used?
- who is going to be holding views on this?
- what are the possible conflicts that may develop?

And of course:
- how am I going to collect these views and explore their relationship with the different strategies?

Welcome to the blog, and to Norfolk

This blog has been set up to host and store various resources which are designed to support students (and teachers) who are taking part in fieldwork on the Norfolk coast of the UK.

I lived on the coast for 12 years, a short cycle from a wonderful beach which, although on the east coast actually faced west. You should be able to work out which stretch of coastline that must have been.
I now live a little further inland, in Breckland, but still visit the coast regularly, and know the stretch between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth very well, particularly the stretch between Snettisham and Cromer, which I visit regularly.
This stretch of coastline is a wonderful places, and I will be sharing lots of information about the coast, which will include:
- mapping options for the coast, including the Stamen Watercolours featured at the top of this post.
- details on the AONB
- information on the various stakeholders who own, or manage a range of areas along the coast, to include the National Trust, Holkham Estate, RSPB and Norfolk Wildlife Trust, along with other organisations and individuals.
- details on some of the coastal villages and settlements along the coast, using ONS data and other tools
- advice on websites and other places to find out more, along with details of relevant local news stories and options for 'following' what is happening along the coastline as a result of ongoing management practices which are taking place.

There will also be specific information relating to the Controlled Assessment titles for OCR 'B' Geography for 2016-17, and the coast one in particular.

There will be guidance for students in advance of the fieldwork that will be carried out during 2016, and the write-up in time for submission in 2017.

I will draw on material that I wrote for a book published by the Geographical Association called 'Fieldwork through Enquiry', which I co-wrote with John Widdowson. There are two chapters of this book which focus on coastal management and coastal processes.