Jargon Buster Index

Engineering concepts

• Borrow pits
• By Pass
• Coastal cells
• Coastal defence
• Coastal protection
• Geo-tubes
• Gripping
• Kidding
• Land claim
• Polder
• Recycling
• Regulated Tidal Exchange
• Sea defences

Generic issues

• Acid rain
• Adaptive management
• Eutrophication
• Infiltration
• Tidal range

Glossary

• Blow out
• CASI
• DEFRA
• Dioecious
• Ephemeral
• Eustacy
• Halophytic
• Istocy
• Leaching
• LIDAR

Protected nature conservation terms

• Birds Directive
• CROW
• FCS
• Habitats Directive
• Natura2000
• NCR
• NNR
• Ramsar
• SAC
• SCIs
• SPA
• SSSI
• Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981