Frontiers in Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics for Coastal Hazard Evaluation

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last years, the vulnerability of coastal areas to flooding and erosion processes has been gradually increasing due to the growing of population, economic activities and widespread infrastructures, involving an excessive exploitation of coastal resources. Such negative impacts have been further worsened by climate change and extreme storm events (more frequent and intense), producing severe impacts on coastal dynamics, aquatic ecosystems and socio-economics.

Accordingly, coastal mitigation and protection actions necessarily require the development of innovative technologies and methods for the evaluation of changes taking place along the coast helpful for hazard assessment (e.g., see the EU Blue Growth strategy).

This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles aimed at providing a contribution to the definition of innovative methods and technologies for investigating coastal morphodynamic processes and hydrodynamics, particularly related to the evaluation of beach resistance to flood and erosion hazard and potentially including the effects of climate change. Contributions should focus on methods and challenges in physical and/or numerical modelling and field observations.

Dr. Alessandra Saponieri
Dr. Nico Valentini
Dr. Daniela Malcangio
Dr. Antonio Francone
Guest Editors

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• Beach resistance
• Coastal mitigation
• Coastal protection
• Climate change
• Extreme storm events
• Erosion hazard
• Sea level rise
• Numerical modelling
• Physical modelling