Spatial Planning and Irregularities in Coastal Areas
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 467
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban planning and settlement development; regional planning and spatial development; maritime spatial planning; cultural heritage management; tourist development
Interests: geographic information science; remote sensing; spatial statistics; land change science; environmental monitoring and modelling; spatial and environmental planning; climate change impacts
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on spatial planning and all forms of related irregularities in coastal areas. Of particular interest are the detection, mapping, monitoring, and/or modeling of urban sprawl and expansion in coastal areas, driven either by spontaneous self-promoted housing strategies or by market dynamics.
Moreover, we are interested in studies related to urban sprawl pressures in coastal areas, which are encouraged by loose spatial planning framework, and all the subsequent environmental and social impacts (unnecessary consumption of valuable land resources, transformation of peri-urban landscape (natural and managed land), stretches of existing urban infrastructures, etc.).
This Special Issue will not attempt to answer all questions, but it aims to present examples related to:
- Analysis of spatial patterns of urban sprawl by using remote sensing and GIS (geographical information systems) techniques;
- Interesting case studies of urban sprawl in coastal and insular cities analyzed under the spatial planning framework and the local sociospatial particularities;
- Studies of urban sprawl in coastal and insular cities in connection with tourist development and the demand for a second house;
- Studies of cultural and natural heritage degradation due to urban sprawl pressures.
Papers incorporating novel and interesting geospatial science techniques to study Urban Sprawl in Coastal and Insular Cities are particularly encouraged. Well-prepared review papers are also welcomed. A thematic balance will also play a role in the selection of papers.
Assist. Prof. Georgios Tsilimigkas
Assoc. Prof. Sotirios Koukoulas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Spatial planning in coastal areas
- Coastal and insular cities
- Remote sensing, GIS, and urban change
- Urban sprawl (mapping, monitoring, modeling)
