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The Human Dimensions of Coastal Adaptation Strategies

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 14980

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Chad McGuire

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Department of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02748, USA
Interests: Environmental Policy; Environmental Law; Policy Analysis; Sustainability; Climate Change; Coastal Management; Environmental Justice

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is influencing our ability to manage our coastlines based solely on prior experience and expectations. This Special Issue is dedicated to understanding how humans are dealing with these changed circumstances. Examples of inquires include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • How are changed circumstances affecting existing policies and practices along coastal regions?
  • How is public policy evolving to deal with coastal adaptation strategies?
  • What barriers (political, legal, economic, etc.) exist in seeking new practices associated with coastal adaptation?
  • What are the emerging best practices associated with coastal adaptation?
  • What are the implications of coastal adaptation strategies? How are ecosystems impacted?
  • What is the role of equity in considering coastal adaptation strategies?

The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for understanding coastal adaptation strategies from varied dimensions of human experience. This includes concepts of sustainability through lenses such as natural capital and environmental justice. The unifying theme around this Special Issue is a deep look at the intersection of the need for coastal adaptation and the impact of that adaptation from various perspectives.

Prof. Chad McGuire
Guest Editor

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Towards Integration of Climate Disaster Risk and Waste Management: A Case Study of Urban and Rural Coastal Communities in the Philippines
by Nagisa Yoshioka, Marlon Era and Daisuke Sasaki
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 1624; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041624 - 3 Feb 2021
Cited by 5 | Viewed by 12526
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Coastal communities are exposed to various environmental risks, including natural hazards such as storm surges and flooding. As climate change has escalated, the management of such dangers has grown in importance and urgency, particularly among states with long coast lines. Climate change adaptation [...] Read more.
Coastal communities are exposed to various environmental risks, including natural hazards such as storm surges and flooding. As climate change has escalated, the management of such dangers has grown in importance and urgency, particularly among states with long coast lines. Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction have attracted attention from policymakers in Southeast Asia, which is one of the most disaster-prone regions. Coastal community resilience, however, is not determined by climate and disaster risks alone, but by other factors as well. Waste pollution is an environmental threat that may affect those who are dependent on marine resources. These multiple factors contribute to coastal resilience and are, in fact, addressed separately as different issues; therefore, conflicts or synergies in respective countermeasures often become oversights in the policy-making processes. Through a case study of key Philippine stakeholders, including fishing communities, we identified impacts of climate change, natural hazards, and waste on the livelihoods of community residents and the interplay among these factors. We aim to better understand the situation on the ground and contribute by improving policy recommendations for coastal communities. An integrated approach to enhance coastal adaptation is critical for maximising the effectiveness of the limited resources of communities. Full article
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The Human Dimensions of Coastal Adaptation Strategies
by Chad J. McGuire
Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 546; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020546 - 8 Jan 2021
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Not only are humans responsible for the anthropogenic causes of currently observed climate change, but we are also responsible for our responses to climate change. How we choose to respond provides important insights into our ability to collectively act in the face of [...] Read more.
Not only are humans responsible for the anthropogenic causes of currently observed climate change, but we are also responsible for our responses to climate change. How we choose to respond provides important insights into our ability to collectively act in the face of threats with the unique characteristics of climate change. This communication attempts to provide an overview of some of the difficulties in forging new policy directions along our coastlines in an era of climate change. It is meant as a referential framing for the research presented in this Special Issue. As this communication is being written, the world is gripped by a global pandemic caused by a variant of the coronavirus. There are important corollaries between the underlying characteristics of the coronavirus and the causes and effects of climate change. Seeing how the global citizenry is responding to the current epidemic provides some insight into the difficulties in fostering collective action towards climate change. As with the pandemic, the issue is not really one of understanding the problem, but rather the varying human responses to the problem. We can expect the same difficulties as we continue to confront the ever-growing problem of climate change. Full article
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