"Coastal towns share common factors including physical isolation, significant levels of deprivation and transience, and low-waged, low-skilled, seasonally dependent economies ...these problems are exacerbated by the declining and seasonal nature of the coastal economy."

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"Seaside resorts, if they are studied at all, tend to be analysed as cases of environments in decline."

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Coastal Regeneration in English Resorts, 2010.