Climate Change Impacts on Coastal and Marine Ecosystems: Integrated Assessment and Best Adaptation Options

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal areas host an increasing population and economic activity across the world, however they have been defined. Together with their neighbour intertidal and marine areas, they also host highly biodiverse and vulnerable ecosystems being negatively affected by local and global impacts from socioeconomic development (Duarte et al., 2008). Climate change is recognised as a chief driver of coastal ecosystems services losses, so that research on sound and accurate assessment of the impacts and feasible and efficient adaptation options are being encouraged. This special issue calls for papers focusing on the integrated assessment of climate change impacts on coastal and adjacent marine areas, and on the best adaptation solutions.

Contributors are invited to consider different dimensions of integrated assessment like those related to the transdisciplinary definition of concepts, key relationships, and methods; the capture of the complexity presiding the interactions between biotic and abiotic components within the  land-sea interfaces; the synergies between climate and locally sourced impacts; the integration of multi-hazards and multiscale approaches; and the consideration of the whole range of stakeholders concerned with climate change impacts in coastal areas and their involvement in the search for integrated solutions.

This Special Issue of Land welcomes contributions from researchers on the following suggested topics:

• Climate change impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems;
• Integrated assessment of climate change impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems;
• Biogeophysical assessment of climate change impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems;
• Economic valuation of coastal ecosystems services;
• Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and best adaptation options for coastal areas;
• Human health perspective of climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems services;
• Coastal and marine planning for carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation;
• Coastal areas adaptation from the perspective the governance of the commons;
• The role of nature-based solutions in coastal areas adaptation;
• Human perceptions and behaviors regarding coastal and marine areas.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Matías González Hernández
Prof. Dr. Carmelo J. León
Dr. Fernando Tuya
Dr. Javier de León
Dr. Yen E. Lam-González
Guest Editors

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• climate change impacts
• coastal areas
• integrated assessment
• adaptation strategies
• participative governance
• economic and non-market valuation