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Sustainable Mitigation and Resilience of Coastal Hazard

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2024) | Viewed by 2452

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Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Physics Department, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: numerical modelling; climate change; coastal flood assessment; ocean waves; wave energy; marine litter
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Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Physics Department, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: numerical modelling; satellite remote sensing; flood hazard; vulnerability and risk assessment; salt marsh dynamics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal hazards, such as storm surges, flooding, erosion, extreme waves, and sea level rise, pose significant threats to people, properties and the environmental in coastal areas around the world. These hazards are expected to increase in frequency and intensity due to climate change.

Coastal hazards pose a significant challenge to the sustainability of coastal systems. Coastal systems provide valuable ecosystem services and protection from natural disasters but are vulnerable to the impacts of coastal hazards, which can disrupt their functioning and reduce their benefits.

Therefore, it is essential to develop and implement effective strategies to mitigate the impacts of coastal hazards and enhance the resilience of coastal communities. In this context, the development of numerical models, in combination with remote sensing, allows the estimation of the current and future exposure and vulnerability of coastal systems and communities to coastal hazards and an evaluation of the effectiveness and feasibility of different resilience and mitigation options.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest developments in sustainability challenges faced by coastal regions. Contributions are encouraged in topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Monitoring or modelling of coastal hazards;
  • Assessing the current and future risks and impacts of coastal hazards on coastal systems and communities;
  • Applying remote sensing or numerical modelling methods to assess hazards and risks in coastal environments;
  • Identifying and evaluating the effectiveness and feasibility of various mitigation and resilience options;
  • Developing and applying indicators to measure and monitor the mitigation and resilience performance;
  • Modelling the effects of coastal hazards under climate change.

Dr. Americo S. Ribeiro
Dr. Carina Lurdes Lopes
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • coastal hazard
  • climate change
  • vulnerability and risk assessment

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Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research on Port Infrastructure Vulnerability to Climate Change (2012–2023): Key Indices, Influential Contributions, and Future Directions
by Juliana Sales dos Santos, Cláudia Klose Parise, Lia Duarte and Ana Cláudia Teodoro
Sustainability 2024, 16(19), 8622; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16198622 - 4 Oct 2024
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This article analyzes the climate vulnerability of seaports through a bibliometric review of 45 articles published between 2012 and 2023. The research highlights the increase in publications focusing on the vulnerability of port infrastructure to climate impacts, a topic that previously received less [...] Read more.
This article analyzes the climate vulnerability of seaports through a bibliometric review of 45 articles published between 2012 and 2023. The research highlights the increase in publications focusing on the vulnerability of port infrastructure to climate impacts, a topic that previously received less attention compared to operational, economic, and logistical factors, which are frequently discussed in the existing literature. The analysis reinforces the relevance of this study, with the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom emerging as the most influential countries in this research area. This article also reveals the predominance of methods based on the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI), which includes ports in its assessments, and emphasizes the need to develop a more robust index for evaluating port vulnerability. Additionally, it discusses current topics, such as sea level rise and the use of global climate models and suggests future research directions to enhance the assessment of port vulnerability in the face of climate change. Full article
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