Author(s): Steve Beguely

Geography

Coastal Processes provides a long-awaited update for teachers and students using beaches and coasts as their natural environment in fulfi lling the requirements of the Level 3 NCEA Achievement Standard 3.1/90701: Analyse a geographic environment, focusing on the interacting natural processes. 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 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. The activities in Coastal Processes have been designed to guide students to a thorough understanding of the processes, phenomena and elements of coastal landscapes. Its glossary and index will support their learning and application of the concepts discussed in the book.