East Coast Landscape

The relatively undeveloped East Coast of Barbados is renowned for its natural beauty and pounding waves. Spectacular vistas are easy to find on this coast, a large portion of which has been designated as a national park under the Physical Development Plan administered by the Town and Country Development Planning Office.

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Glossary of Terms

Risk Analysis

Assessment of the total risk due to all possible environmental inputs and all possible mechanisms.

Survey, photogrammetric

A survey in which monuments are placed at points that have been determined photogrammetrically.

Rubble

Loose angular water worn stones along a beach. Rough, irregular fragments of broken rock.

Berm

A geomorphological feature usually located at mid-beach and characterized by a sharp break in slope, separating the flatter backshore from the seaward-sloping foreshore.

Intertidal zone (often called littoral zone)

The part of the shoreline that is submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide.

Seawall

A structure, often concrete or stone, built along a portion of a coast to prevent erosion and other damage by wave action. Often it retains earth against its shoreward face.

A structure separating land and water areas to alleviate the risk of flooding by the sea. Generally shore-parallel, although some reclamation seawalls may include lenghts that are nromal or oblique to the (original) shoreline.
A vertical or near-vertical type of shoreline armouring characterised by a smooth surface.

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East Coast Landscape