Sustainable Coastal Environment and Marine Science

Dear Colleagues,

the research on coastal environments is one of the most interdisciplinary challenges in engineering and marine sciences. Water and sediments travel from the inland down to the downstream coastal stretches. There, river flow and fluvial sediment transport interact with wind driven waves, tidal oscillations and nearshore circulation and influence water quality and morphodynamics in the nearshore area. Protected as well as heavily anthropized areas are then prone to be influenced by water and sediments coming from so afar. In the case of urban areas, artificial hydraulic networks can also influence the nearshore area in terms of water quality.

In the last decades, the problem of coastal erosion, and the consequent coastal flooding, the problem of the water quality, the land use and transformation, the link between reservoir siltation and coastal erosion opened great research opportunities. The big deal is to manage coastal areas with particular attention paid to social, economic, and environmental sustainability. The possible impacts of climate change scenarios for the next decades on the coastal environment makes it even harder to define the most appropriate management policies to be used when sustainability must be taken into account.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect research works focused on these themes. Indeed, although great work in different research areas has been done, a huge amount of work must be done in order to answer theoretical and practical questions still open.

Research papers, interdisciplinary and extended review works, and the illustration of new technical applications are encouraged.

To point out a possible list of interesting topics for this issue, authors may refer to areas:

• coastal erosion and coastal flooding;
• hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of coastal areas;
• water quality;
• risk assessment;
• climate change adaptation;
• statistical analysis on the main forcing terms on the coastal environment (storm surges, wind waves etc.);
• sustainable planning for coastal zone management;
• interaction between coastal structures and water quality;
• interaction between reservoir siltation and coastal erosion;
• interaction between land use and coastal erosion.

Prof. Dr. Marcello Di Risio
Dr. Daniele Celli
Guest Editors

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• coastal morphodynamic
• water quality
• urban development, land use
• climate change
• hydrodynamics
• coastal structures