Interdisciplinary Approaches to Arctic Hazards and Risks

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce a JMSE Special Issue on the modeling of coastal hazards and risks, that is applicable to Arctic settings. Arctic coastal hazards include erosion, flooding, permafrost thaw, and salinity intrusion. The hazards pose risks and consequently costs on coastal communities and government agencies, and the hazards and risks are expected to intensify in coming decades due to climate change. Communities and agencies mitigate the hazards and risks in various ways. For example, to mitigate flooding of roads, funds may be expended to raise the roads. The ability to mitigate the hazards and risks constitutes resilience. In this issue, we seek approaches to defining coastal hazards and risks and to designing counter-measures to mitigate those risks and achieve resilience. Addressing these issues requires interdisciplinary approaches including natural and social sciences and engineering and requires the involvement of local communities. The Special Issue aims to define the state of knowledge of Arctic coastal hazards and risks and identify knowledge gaps that prevent successful coastal adaptation to climate change.

Prof. Dr. Tom Ravens
Prof. Dr. Xiao Ming
Guest Editors

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