Socioeconomic Resilience to Climate Change in Coastal Regions
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 676
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; hydrogeology; physical geography; geomorphology; climate change; geo-hazards
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Interests: computational geomechanics; fractured rock hydrology; numerical methods for PDEs; stability of rock slopes; climate change effects on territories
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the concept of resilience has gained prominence in the field of coastal management, particularly regarding the incorporation of natural dynamics into engineered interventions. Resilience is increasingly viewed as a crucial attribute, with coastal management policies and practices progressively aimed at reinforcing this quality. However, a comprehensive understanding of coastal processes, especially within the context of climate change, is essential for efficient resilience planning.
Global warming has precipitated a range of consequences, including the warming of the oceans and the melting of terrestrial ice, causing sea levels to rise. This poses significant challenges to coastal regions, and is becoming an issue of growing socioeconomic concern. Rising sea levels, coupled with alterations in storm patterns, are increasing coastal flood risk in many coastal areas. In this regard, predictions of the rate of shoreline shifts, based on analyses of historical wave data and projected wave conditions, are of paramount importance. Even so, these represent but a few of the pressing issues at hand.
Scholars are committed to advancing and disseminating novel information to bolster socioeconomic resilience to climate change in coastal regions. This Special Issue will include research and review articles examining the multifaceted impacts of climate change, and which provide solutions for enhancing the socioeconomic resilience of coastal regions.
We look forward to your valuable contributions.
Dr. Marco Delle Rose
Dr. Corrado Fidelibus
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilience to climate change
- coastal geomorphology
- storm pattern prediction
- stability of rocky cliffs
- shore erosion
- infrastructure in coastal areas
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