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A Tidal Protection Barrier for Sutton Saltmarsh

This output comprises a timber, geogrid and brushwood structure, built to mitigate the effects of the tide upon an eroding saltmarsh, 100metres in length. The work was designed by myself in collaboration with Andrew Hawes associates, and funded by Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB Sustainable Development Fund, River Deben Association and The Woodbridge Society, and built with support from HMP Hollesley Bay Colony and voluntary help. This project includes presentations to the Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference (2011) and a presentation as a part of a workshop: “Floods and environmental change: conceptual frameworks for thinking about watery landscapes and living with floods”. This was a part of an AHRC, Researching Environmental Change Network: “Learning to live with water: Flood histories, Environmental Change, Remembrance and Resilience”. Further details of this ongoing research are explored in PLOT, a research publication edited by myself exploring the cultural implications of landscape change and including his essays ‘Beauty and the Bureaucrat’ and ‘Crumbling Assets’.

The publication was launched September 2008 with a symposium at Middlesex University, organised by me and Nicky Coutts, and introduced and chaired by me. Speakers included Bergit Arends, (Natural History Museum), Professor Jean Fisher, artist Maria Thereza Alves, Fernando Rodriguez Palma and Dr Martha Fleming.

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