Targeting Solutions to Enhance the Resilience, Adaptive Capacity, and Sustainability of Coastal Areas

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal environments are some of the most populated places on Earth. However, great future challenges for these environments due to climate change and urbanisation are projected; their maintenance is thus becoming increasingly difficult. Increased storm surges, flooding, and erosion due to sea-level rise (SLR) and land subsidence (LS) represent major natural hazards that threaten coastal regions in the 21^st century, engendering potentially high socio-economic impacts. Furthermore, industrial spillages, sewage effluents, refineries, urban and storm water runoff, and oil leakages from shipwrecks pollute the surrounding water, especially if the contaminants are dispersed under specific wave and current conditions, impacting the people’s livelihoods, public health, and local water quality.

Therefore, sustainable techniques for protecting coastal regions from meteorological and hydrological hazards and the diffusion and dispersion of pollutants are urgently needed, and a better understanding of coastal processes is crucial for coastal protection. Furthermore, it is necessary to provide better predictions and improve our capability to model coastal structures’ influence and secondary effects on local conditions, taking into consideration future uncertainties due to climate change and urbanisation.

By protecting these living habitats against storm damage, flooding, and erosion, their inhabitants can be kept safe, and the economic loss of personal and public property, cultural landmarks, and natural resources can be mitigated.

For this Special Issue, we are inviting original research papers investigating the hydrodynamics, sediment and pollutant transport, beach erosion, water quality, and ecology of coastal environments. Research aiming to improve the scientific understanding of coastal processes and identify new sustainable coastal protection structures or optimize existing ones is welcome. This Special Issue is open to experimental and numerical studies, theoretical and field works, and reviews.

Dr. Matteo Rubinato
Dr. James Hart
Dr. Chi Zhang
Guest Editors

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• coastal protection
• coastal sustainability
• coastal flooding
• coastal erosion
• coastal vulnerability
• sediment transport
• pollutant transport
• coastal structures
• resilient coastlines
• future uncertainty scenarios