Coastal Landscape Changes and Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Monitoring
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Oceans".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2627
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coupled human-ecological system in coastal zones
Interests: ecological effect and spatial optimization of transportation infrastructure
Interests: land use change and ecological security assessment; territorial space planning and ecological restoration
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Dear Colleagues,
Coastal zone, an interface between land and sea, is a crucial zone on the earth. The coastal zone is highly closed to the survival and development of human beings across the world. Approximately 40% of the world's population lives in coastal areas. This number will continue to grow in the future with the development of the economy and the increasing rate of urbanization. Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) and Future Earth Coasts, two important international projects in coastal zone, have emphasized the importance of scientific understanding of the state, trends, and the interplay between humanity and the rapidly changing coastal environment of the coast. Coastal wetland ecosystems are playing crucial roles in mitigating climate change and reducing the increasing pressure from population growth and escalating disaster risk, such as sea-level rise, storm, erosion, and oil spill etc. The construction of port, towns and industries have developed rapidly, and the scale of aquaculture and coastal land reclamation has continued to expand. Under the high intensity and frequency of anthropogenic disturbances in coastal areas, the characteristics of coastal landscape are changing dramatically in various temporal and spatial scales. Sustainability of coastal zone highly depends on the continuity of healthy coastal ecosystems. Therefore, long-term monitoring of coastal landscape change and wetland ecosystems is essential. This special issue aims to explore the characteristics and trends of coastal landscape changes, coastal wetland landscape evolution, and the driving factors, and to propose effective strategies for sustainable landscape development to guide a more sustainable future of coastal zones. Meanwhile, this special issue tries to design a workshop, with a broad range of stakeholders, to understand and reduce coastal vulnerability towards the sustainable development of shared coastal zone.
Scope:
For this Special Issue, we are interested in contributions regarding the monitoring of the coastal landscape changes and coastal wetland ecosystem, especially comparative studies of spatial-time changes and driving forces, accurate monitoring technology and a conceptual model for coastal landscape health assessment, etc.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Temporal and spatial characteristics of coastal landscape and wetland change at multiple scales
(2) Driving mechanism of coastal landscape and wetland changes
(3) Accurate monitoring technologies
(4) Conceptual models of health assessment for coastal wetland ecosystems
(5) Quantitative assessment of land use/land cover changes in coastal zone
(6) Urban expansion in coastal zone
(7) Coastal landscape Sustainability
(8) Coastal resilience and risks
Dr. Zhenglei Xie
Dr. Gaoru Zhu
Dr. Dafang Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landscape
- coastal wetland
- urban expansion
- sustainable development
- remote sensing
- land use/ cover
- conceptual models
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