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Territorial sea

The offshore belt in which a coastal state has exclusive jurisdiction. The territorial sea may not extend more than 12 nautical miles from the coastline.

Shoreline Management

The development of strategic, long-term and sustainable coastal defence and land-use policy within a sediment cell.

Blowout

a depression on the land surface caused by wind erosion.

Buffer Area

A parcel or strip of land that is designed and designated to permanently remain vegetated in an undisturbed and natural condition to protect an adjacent aquatic or wetland site from upland impacts, to provide habitat for wildlife and to afford limited public access.

Coastal Processes

Collective term covering the action of natural forces on the shoreline, and near shore seabed.

Survey, control

A survey that provides coordinates (horizontal or vertical) of points to which supplementary surveys are adjusted.

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