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Coastal Risk and Adaptation in Small Islands
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Coastal Risk and Adaptation in Small Islands

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Coastal Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 8334

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ali Dastgheib

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Coastal and Urban Risk and Resilience Department, IHE-Delft Institute for Ware Education, Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: coastal hazard; coastal risk assessment; disaster risk reduction

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Small islands are widely recognized as having high exposure and vulnerability to ocean-driven natural hazards, such as inundation, erosion, deterioration of freshwater lens and loss of coastal ecosystems, and thus have very high risk. As these islands are already being threatened by climate change-driven intensification of hazards as well as the increasing exposure driven by community and economic growth, their window to adapt and reduce risks is very short if not already closed. Sustainable development of these islands, especially that of small island developing states (SIDS), requires robust guidance on adaptation and risk reduction. On the other hand, because of the often unique geophysical and socio-economic conditions of these islands, numerical models and modeling approaches traditionally adopted for coastal zones may not always be applicable to adequately assess the coastal hazards and risks in these environments.

This Special Issue invites contributions on modeling, monitoring and conceptual approaches used to inform coastal adaptation in small islands and may focus on hazard estimation, risk assessment, risk reduction and adaptation, or combinations thereof. Contributions may also include case studies, review articles and short communications.

Dr. Ali Dastgheib
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • small islands
  • SIDS
  • coastal hazards
  • risk assessment
  • coastal adaptation
  • sustainable growth
  • coastline retreat
  • coastal flood
  • vulnerability

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Utilising Natural Attributes of Tropical Islands for Beach Protection
by Kerry Black and Derick Steinhobel
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(11), 1208; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9111208 - 02 Nov 2021
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This study reveals the coastal protection benefits of small artificial reefs on tropical islands. A monitored case study involving field and computer modelling investigations, as well as construction of a 95 m long reef and 12,000 m3 of local sand nourishment in [...] Read more.
This study reveals the coastal protection benefits of small artificial reefs on tropical islands. A monitored case study involving field and computer modelling investigations, as well as construction of a 95 m long reef and 12,000 m3 of local sand nourishment in a tropical lagoon on the north-east coast of Mauritius, is presented. Monitoring showed that a large salient widened the beach by 50 m in one year. The salient has continued to grow slowly and has remained stable for four years, including during a cyclone. Only a simple and inexpensive artificial reef was needed in the shallow lagoon to rebalance the shoreline wave conditions, because most wave energy was lost by breaking further offshore on the natural reef. With rising sea levels, inshore reefs with nourishment can overcome increases in wave height, wave set-up and wave run-up at the shoreline, which are jointly responsible for erosion and the flooding of homes by erosion and over-topping. To find suitable nourishment sources, regional computer modelling identified the following dominant circulation patterns: currents both coming into the lagoon over the reef crest (driven by breaking wave energy) and exiting via relict river channels or zones of lower waves. Sand for nourishment may be extracted from the exit locations with reduced environmental impact, because net currents are driving sand out of the lagoon system into deeper water. These relict sands have the same grain size as the natural beach and are readily accessible. Full article
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Climate Change Adaptation on Small Island States: An Assessment of Limits and Constraints
by Walter Leal Filho, Murukesan Krishnapillai, Henry Sidsaph, Gustavo J. Nagy, Johannes M. Luetz, Jack Dyer, Michael Otoara Ha’apio, Peni Hausia Havea, Kushaal Raj, Priyatma Singh, Tom Rogers, Chunlan Li, Monica K. Boodhan, Franziska Wolf, Desalegn Yayeh Ayal and Hossein Azadi
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(6), 602; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9060602 - 31 May 2021
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Small Island States (SIDS) are among the nations most exposed to climate change (CC) and are characterised by a high degree of vulnerability. Their unique nature means there is a need for more studies focused on the limits to CC adaptation on such [...] Read more.
Small Island States (SIDS) are among the nations most exposed to climate change (CC) and are characterised by a high degree of vulnerability. Their unique nature means there is a need for more studies focused on the limits to CC adaptation on such fragile nations, particularly regarding their problems and constraints. This paper addressed a perceived need for research into the limitations of adaptation on SIDS, focusing on the many unique restrictions. To this end, the study identified and described the adaptation limits they have by using a review of the literature and an analysis of case studies from a sample of five SIDS in the Caribbean and Pacific regions (Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Cook Islands, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Tonga). This research’s findings showed that an adaptable SIDS is characterised by awareness of various values, appreciation and understanding of a diversity of impacts and vulnerabilities, and acceptance of certain losses through change. The implications of this paper are two-fold. It explains why island nations continue to suffer from the impacts of CC and suggest some of the means via which adequate policies may support SIDS in their efforts to cope with the threats associated with a changing climate. This study concluded that, despite the technological and ecological limits (hard limits) affecting natural systems, adaptation to CC is limited by such complex forces and societal factors (soft limits) that more adequate adaptation strategies could overcome. Full article
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