Survey and Study of Rocky Coasts: From Risk Assessment to Land Planning Strategies
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 270
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural hazards; monitoring; geomatics; remote sensing; glaciers; cryosphere
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2. National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, 10135 Torino, Italy
Interests: geo-hydrological hazard; geomorphological mapping; urban geology; geoheritage
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Interests: geomorphological evolution of coastal zone and anthropic impact; landslide and flooding in relation to land use changes and heavy rainfall; agricultural terraces, slope stability and landscape evolution; geomorphological mapping in urban areas
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Geosciences aims to collate high-quality, original research articles and technical notes focused on coastal cliff dynamics. This Special Issue will prioritize case studies, best practices, and applied research.
Approximately 80 percent of the world's coasts are rocky cliffs of varying heights, which are subject to collapse and erosion. Causal factors are usually recognized in sea-wave action, environmental weathering, and seismic actions.
These effects result in varying rates of retreat/collapse depending on the physical–mechanical characteristics of the rock masses and related geostructural conditions.
Ongoing climate change is intensifying extreme hydrometeorological phenomena, including storm surges. This trend of increasing extreme events is manifested on rocky coasts through a significant increase in the erosive energy of cliffs.
High-risk conditions occur due to the interaction of instability processes with transport infrastructure of strategic value, such as road and rail systems located along coastal areas, buildings and constructions with different uses, including residential and housing, and tourist settlements.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that provide insights into research on rocky coasts in terms of geomorphological evolution, monitoring activities of both proximal and remote sensing types, application of computational techniques for the study of stability conditions, hazard assessment and associated risk, land-use planning, as well as geological heritage enhancement and protection.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Analysis of the geological processes predisposing the collapses;
- Methodological approaches for the monitoring of coastal cliffs;
- Geomechanical and geotechnical methods to analyze the properties of cliff material;
- Land planning strategies to cope with coastal retreat and collapses.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Danilo Godone
Dr. Faccini Francesco
Dr. Pierluigi Brandolini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural hazard
- rocky coast
- coastal geomorphology
- monitoring
- hazard assessment
- sea-storm
- anthropogenic impact
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