The Current State of Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Action Plans Designed to Reduce Emerging Climate-Related Risks in the Coastal Zone
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 4396
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As Guest Editor, I invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration in an upcoming Special Issue of the journal Water. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a review of the current state of vulnerability assessments and associated adaptation action plans designed to reduce climate-related risks in the coastal zone. Over the past 30 years, coastal zone scientists, engineers, planners, social scientists, economists, resource managers, and other practitioners have been striving to quantify risks, formulate adaption plans, and successfully implement those plans to mitigate disruptions in the built, natural, and human environment commensurate with climate change. The scope, scale, and sophistication of these efforts has matured over time in response to an increase in the knowledge base and relevant emerging technologies.
Submissions are sought from coastal studies conducted in a broad range of geographic and climatic locations throughout the northern and southern hemisphere. Of particular interest are those studies that are not based on existing best management practices or other professional standards but, rather, utilize novel approaches designed to overcome the limitations inherent in them.
Dr. Randall W. Parkinson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Novel techniques to quantify and remediate risk and vulnerability, especially as it relates to rising groundwater elevation, saltwater encroachment, and the structural integrity of coastal (infra)structures (e.g., corrosion, subsidence)
- Adaptive strategies to enhance resilience of the natural environment to sea-level rise (e.g., land acquisition, restoration, removal of topographic barriers, fertilization, thin-layer disposal)
- Innovative approaches toward garnering public and legislative support (e.g., community engagement) for an action plan, overcoming implementation obstacles (e.g., funding, regulatory, political, perception of risk), and evaluating outcomes (e.g., Was the project successful? How was success measured?)
- Investigations or studies conducted in accordance with environmental justice and/or underserved communities
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