**Pasquale Contestabile 1,2 and Diego Vicinanza 1,3,\***


Received: 28 August 2020; Accepted: 11 September 2020; Published: 17 September 2020

**Abstract:** This paper intends to offer the readers an overview of the Special Issue on Coastal Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies: From Monitoring to Applied Research. The main focus of this Special Issue is to provide the state-of-the-art and the recent research updates on the sustainable management strategies for protecting vulnerable coastal areas. Based on 28 contributions from authors from 17 different countries (Australia, China, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA), an ensemble of interdisciplinary articles has been collected, emphasizing the importance of tackling technical and scientific problems at different scales and from different point of views.

**Keywords:** coastal vulnerability; coastal defense; coastal monitoring; wave climate; coastal morphodynamic; coastal management; coastal ecosystem
