A Novel Strategy for Coastal Management under Climate Change
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2024 | Viewed by 182
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coastal geomorphology; coastal oceanography; climate change; coastal erosion; coastal zone management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: coastal oceanography; integrated coastal zone management; coastal eosion; coastal zone risk assessment to climate change; spatial planning
Interests: marine policy; coastal zone management; coastal zone resilience to climate change; adapt measures to climate change; spatial planning; stakeholders’ engagement in decision-making
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Almost three quarters of the world’s coastal zone is subject to coastal erosion issues, and ongoing climate change tends to exacerbate the situation. Given the environmental, social, and economic significance of coastal zones, which host over 40% of the world’s population and provide extensive and varied ecosystem services, it is imperative to establish an efficient (both adaptive and/or mitigated) strategy as soon as possible. Climate change necessitates new approaches to coastal management to ensure a long-term vision for a climate-resilient society, adapted to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Forging climate resilient coasts imposes targeted methodologies and innovative tools to frame the problem and support solutions to adopt for implementation.
The current Special Issue, entitled “A Novel Strategy for Coastal Management under Climate Change”, aims to represent the latest advances towards safeguarding coastal environment and related ecosystem services. All issues surrounding innovative technologies, tools, or models that help to reduce uncertainty in risk assessment and that improve knowledge of emerging practices or policies that support smarter adaptation, as well as targeted decision making and systemic planning, are addressed. Therefore, research contributions centered around vulnerable coastal zones that foster adaptive capacity to climate change, regardless of geographic boundaries and scales, are welcome to be presented in this Special Issue.
Dr. Serafeim E. Poulos
Guest Editor
Dr. Aikaterini Karditsa
Dr. Theodora Paramana
Guest Editor Assistants
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- smart adaptation
- innovative tools and technologies
- climate resilient zones
- systemic planning
- coastal zone policy
- adaptive strategies
