Sustainable Coastal Management

Dear Colleagues,

The attraction of living along coastal regions, where approximately 50% of the world's population lives at present, has resulted in this space being under considerable pressure, which is exacerbated by various factors, such as sea level rise, climate change, and extreme events. Facing these threats, the most urgent problems for the coastal community are to assess the impacts of climate change and to present sustainable solutions for coastal areas. It is a matter of urgency to reconsider our traditional approaches to the management of coastal issues and to rapidly develop a new paradigm of “Sustainable Coastal Management”.

In the present Special Issue, we aim to address the theme of “Sustainable Coastal Management” from a multitude of complementary sub-themes that take into consideration the adaptation and sustainability of natural coastal resources and built environments. We invite the submissions of reviews and original contributions related to the technical, legal, ecological, economical, and even social behaviors, as well as policy issues related to the sustainable uses and management of coastal zones and marine resources.  

The Special Issue welcomes submissions on the field of sustainable coastal management research addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Sustainable coastal management;
• Definition and evaluation of coastal management sustainability indices;
• Climate change-adaptation planning and management of coastal zones;
• Marine spatial planning;
• Integral coastal management and planning;
• Marine spatial planning;
• Coastal engineering and ecosystems;
• Nature-based solutions for coastal zones;
• Innovative coastal engineering;
• Green coastal engineering;
• Socioeconomic impacts and risks on vulnerable coastal zones;
• Coastal risk assessment and reduction;
• Coastal vulnerability;
• Resilience of coastal zones;
• Remote sensing applied to coastal management;
• Novel coastal modeling approach;
• Coastal hazard and vulnerability analysis;
• Success story of sustainable coastal-adaptation management.

Dr. Mouncef Sedrati
Prof. Dr. Germán Flor-Blanco
Dr. France Floc'h
Guest Editors

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