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The history of the British East coast is different from the continental coast along the North Sea, like in Holland, where over 2000 years the peopie lived in alluvial lowlands, that were frequently flooded and had to protect themselves anyhow against the Sea. The British topography provided sufficient high territory for people to live and to protect themselves against the sea until the era of the industrial revolution, when a fast increasing population started to live and work on land that was seriously under threat of being flooded by the Southern North Sea. Apart from this demographically defined need for an artificial improved coast, the sea itself has caused reauirements for coastal improvements as well.
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Vos, C.J. (2002). The Thames Barrier. In: Chen, J., Eisma, D., Hotta, K., Walker, H.J. (eds) Engineered Coasts. Coastal Systems and Continental Margins, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0099-3_15
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