Vulnerability and Erosion in Coastal Systems in the Context of Global Change
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 612
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Interests: coastal geomorphology; quaternary
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Interests: geography; geoinformatics (GIS); geomorphology
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, global change has transformed into a key element of research on coastal systems and their evolution. New technologies and methodologies have allowed more detailed knowledge of the coastal process and a more accurate estimation of their evolution.
This Special Issue aims to deepen the current knowledge, analyzing coastal dynamics in different scales. In this sense, two main study lines are proposed. On one hand, the vulnerability analysis, in relation to the global change in coastal environments (sea level rise, increase of extreme events, etc.); on the other hand, an analysis about the coastal variations, including studies on past evolution, just like the projections about the predictable changes in the future (e.g., coastal cliff dynamics, dunes, coral reefs, mangroves, estuaries, processes in high latitudes related with permafrost melting, etc.).
Prof. Augusto Pérez-Alberti
Mr. Alejandro Gomez Pazo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Coastal vulnerability analysis using diverse methods
- Physical vulnerability in relation to the global change
- Extreme events and their consequences in low coasts (storms, cyclones, etc.)
- Modelling about the future scenarios in the coastal systems
- Evaluation of the future in the anthropic coasts
- Studies of case in different scales: local, regional, and global
- Impact of sea level rise in the coastal ecosystems
- Monitoring the coastal evolution using new technologies
- Analysis of coastal variations and prediction of their behavior
- Cliff dynamics in the present
- Erosion process in high latitudes in relation to the permafrost and glacial melting
- Erosion processes in beach and dunes
- Erosion processes in coral reefs
- Erosion processes in mangroves
- Future evolution of deltaic systems
- Effects of the global change in rocky coasts
- Modifications in coastal ecosystems related to the global change
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