**3. Conclusions**

The research contents examined in this Special Issue highlight that several stressors affect the coastal zones, determining new challenges to minimize coastal vulnerability through mitigation strategies.

Most papers give us greater insights and open new frontiers to handle risks in coastal zones. Innovation in management tools for coastal managers and applied research in the topic of coastal zone management have been proposed. Several studies have thoroughly investigated specific hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes in costal zones. An overview of mitigation strategies against flooding and erosion, also in the perspective of climate change effects, is also provided. Moreover, the Special Issue is completed by several contributions concerning ecological coastal defense and innovative monitoring techniques.

The ensemble of interdisciplinary articles collected in this Special Issue emphasizes the importance of tackling technical and scientific problems at different scales and from different points of view.

**Author Contributions:** D.V. and P.C. carried out the conceptualization, they wrote the original draft and performed the final review. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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