Sustainability, Reliability and Safety of Coastal and Marine Technical Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Oceans".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 February 2027 | Viewed by 183
Editors
Interests: dangerous goods; shipping; sea accidents; modelling accident consequences; accident prediction and mitigation; risk analysis and assessment; environmental protection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coastal and marine technical systems, including maritime transport, ports, and offshore infrastructure, are vital to the global economy. These systems operate in dynamic environments challenged by hydro-meteorological hazards and climate change. This interaction is bidirectional: environmental forces affect system performance and reliability, while human activities can impact marine ecosystems, causing pollution, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. Ensuring the reliability, safety, and sustainability of these systems is a key challenge in marine engineering.
This Special Issue aims to identify key challenges and develop strategies that integrate technical and environmental approaches to support the sustainable development of coastal and marine ecosystems under increasing anthropogenic pressure. It highlights efforts that contribute to mitigating ecosystem degradation, provides a platform for knowledge exchange among scientists, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers, and promotes an interdisciplinary and science-based approach to sustainable marine system management.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Impacts of coastal and marine industries, including maritime transport, on ecosystem functioning and environmental risk assessment, including modeling and accident prediction;
- Reliability, safety, and resilience of complex technical systems in marine environments, including effects of hydro-meteorological conditions and aging, degradation, or failure processes;
- Modeling, probabilistic analysis, and simulation methods for maritime systems and critical infrastructure;
- Maintenance and operational cost optimization of marine technical systems;
- Strategies and integrated approaches to enhance system reliability, operational safety, and sustainability in marine engineering.
Prof. Dr. Magdalena Bogalecka
Dr. Beata Magryta-Mut
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coastal and marine systems
- coastal and offshore infrastructure
- sustainable development
- anthropogenic pressure
- marine infrastructure management
- environmental impact assessment
- system reliability
- system safety
- system resilience
- risk mitigation
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