Monitoring Coastal Systems and Improving Climate Change Resilience

Dear Colleagues, 

Coastal systems worldwide are increasingly threatened by the adverse effects of climate change and escalating anthropogenic pressures. The degradation of freshwater resources is among the most harmful consequences from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. 

This degradation results in a critical reduction in freshwater availability for essential uses such as agricultural irrigation and drinking water supply. Moreover, coastal water salinization modifies the water budget components and shifts the dynamics of key hydrological processes. These cascading impacts also cause irreversible damage to the healthy state of ecosystems and create a complex web of environmental, economic, and social challenges, necessitating integrated and adaptive management strategies. 

Although research groups worldwide have made significant contributions thus far, additional efforts are needed to deepen our understanding of coastal systems, primarily through enhanced monitoring approaches, strategic planning, implementation, demonstration projects, and data-driven analyses. 

This Special Issue will collect papers contributing to overcoming climate change-induced challenges to coastal systems by presenting novel monitoring approaches, innovative applications of conventional methods that offer new insights, and studies that enhance understanding of coastal water bodies interconnection. 

We, therefore, invite researchers and scientists to contribute state-of-the-art research and share their findings. This Special Issue welcomes both original research articles and comprehensive review papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Seawater intrusion in deltas, estuaries, and lagoons;
• Innovative monitoring techniques in coastal systems;
• Role of tidal regimes (micro-, meso-, and macro-tidal) in influencing salinization processes within coastal systems;
• Interplay between seawater level variations and natural freshwater discharge in controlling coastal water quality;
• Impacts of sea-level rise and land subsidence on salinization of soil, surface water, and groundwater;
• Vulnerability and risk assessments;
• Aquifers beneath seas and lagoons;
• Adaptation, mitigation strategies

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Dr. Veljko Srzić
Dr. Luigi Tosi
Guest Editors

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• monitoring
• coastal systems
• climate change
• aquifer salinization
• groundwater
• surface water
• deltas
• relative sea-level rise
• risk assessment