Land Modifications and Impacts on Coastal Areas, Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal areas are zones that are extremely influenced by climatic and anthropogenic-driven factors acting both at local and global scales.

Among them, ongoing and expected land use and land cover changes, as well as catchment management activities and exploitation of natural resources, can influence the evolution of the coastal environments and landscapes, whose changes can directly and indirectly influence human economic assets and pose under pressure coastal habitats and related ecosystem services.

Interdisciplinary research has highlighted that low-lying coasts worldwide are currently subject to erosion, retreat, and flooding, and that these processes are expected to increase in intensity and frequency because of climate change. Coastal areas play a relevant role in conditioning and providing those ecosystem services that are able to enforce coastal resilience against such extreme marine events.

The identification of the driving factors inducing coastal modifications, as well as the implementation of tailored solutions for coping with the potential consequences of climate change and land modification on biodiversity, ecosystems, and anthropic activities, reveals key factors for supporting the sustainable management of coastal zones from a climate adaptation perspective.

This SI “Land Modifications and Impacts on Coastal Areas” is aimed at collecting case studies from different zones across the world whose local economies and services strongly rely on marine and coastal assets conditioning marine activities, such as tourism and fishing. With the aim of covering a comprehensive assessment of the interaction of natural and anthropic drivers inducing such modifications, we encourage authors to submit contributions in the following priority areas:

• Coastal evolution at different spatial and temporal scales;
• Effects of human activities on coastline dynamics;
• Impacts of extreme events and climate-related processes;
• Traditional and “green engineering” modalities in coastal protection;
• Mapping of land uses and land cover variations in coastal areas;
• Advances in coastal landscape geomorphological evolution;
• Agricultural activities in coastal areas;
• Effects of saltwater intrusion;
• Coastal area over-settlement;
• Beach litter characteristics, distributions, and behaviors in coastal landscapes;
• Beach oiling accident numerical models, distribution, and hazard maps for coastal land management;
• Chronic contamination of coastal water impacts on land–ocean interactions.

We look forward to your contribution.

Dr. Alexis Mooser
Prof. Dr. Giorgio Anfuso
Prof. Dr. Carlos Mestanza-Ramón
Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Silva Casarín
Prof. Dr. Hernando José Bolivar Anillo
Dr. Rosa Molina
Guest Editors

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