Where Land Meets Sea: Terrestrial Influences on Coastal Environments
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2024) | Viewed by 24620
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental modelling; river catchment management and land use impacts on water quality; influence of human activities and natural events at the land/sea interface; climate change
Interests: nutrient and carbon transport and processing from catchment to marine environments; marine carbonate system; controls on marine oxygen in shelf seas
Interests: marine monitoring; water quality; catchment to coast functioning; policy; assess environmental impacts of human activity on the marine and coastal zone
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Interests: coastal contaminants and water quality; health-related water microbiology; environmental impact assessment of wastewater and stormwater discharges; fate and transport of contaminants; catchment sanitary profiling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Characteristics of terrestrial environments and land-based activities often determine the quality, resilience, and health of coastal waters and ecosystems, yet much research, and many management and policy initiatives, still treat terrestrial, estuarine, and marine systems as separate entities, with limited regard to the linkages and exchanges between them. Elevated inputs of nutrients, sediments, and chemical and biological contaminants, from agriculture and industry, conurbations, and human activity, enter water courses and travel through river networks to the sea, impacting the environments through which they flow and affecting the health and resilience of the entire ecosystem, of which humans are a part. The UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme highlights the environmental burden of projected food production needs and the fact that more than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated into water bodies. The ever-present pressure of climate change adds further uncertainty to the sustainability of land management choices, future terrestrial habitat and species distributions, and, by association, the resilience of the coastal margin and adjacent waters.
This Special Issue looks at the close relationship between land and coastal systems, examining the direct and indirect impacts of human populations and activity in river catchments and coastal areas, and how they influence, and are influenced by, the sea.
We welcome papers that consider “where land meets sea” from the perspectives of catchment management and coastal water quality, options for sustainable food production, food security and food safety, resilience of estuarine and coastal ecosystems, and aquatic health. Of particular interest are papers that focus on the interconnectedness of terrestrial and coastal marine systems and the interplay between human activity and the natural environment, highlighting the potential for integrated management to promote health and resilience across domains.
Dr. Paulette PosenDr. Naomi Greenwood
Dr. Michelle Devlin
Dr. Carlos Campos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land–sea interactions
- catchment management
- terrestrial discharge
- estuarine and coastal ecosystems
- coastal resilience
- coastal water quality
- aquatic health
- sustainable food production
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