Vulnerability and Resilience in Coastal Environmental Systems: A Framework to Adapting to Climate Change and Other Coastal Hazards

Dear Colleagues,

The importance of coastal environmental systems and the need to protect such assets are significant for the economy of many countries. At the same time, coastal areas are considered to be endangered to both natural forces and anthropogenic pressures, which are expected to increase in the near future.

Vulnerability due to climate change and hazards constitute an important topic for coastal areas, particularly where coastal resilience is weak.

The aim of the present Special Issue is the state-of-the-art of research and future challenges on vulnerability and resilience assessment for coastal areas according to a broad vision of coastal management that includes climatic and non-climatic stressors.

Specifically, the Special Issue intends to collect contributions dealing with multi-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, involving both numerical and physical modeling techniques, for understanding and estimating vulnerability and resilience in coastal environmental systems. In the same way, research on coastal monitoring and defense, adaptive capacity, design and planning of strategies to reduce vulnerability and risk, tools and techniques to enhancing coastal resilience, combination of measures that can promote coastal safety and sustainability, are welcome.

In particular, the Special Issue will include an ensemble of multi-disciplinary articles focusing on:

• Coastal vulnerability;
• Coastal resilience;
• Evaluation of climate change impacts (and risks) and non-climatic stressors on coastal zones and linked ecosystems;
• Sea level rise;
• Coastal flooding;
• Coastal and dune erosion;
• Low-probability high-impact phenomena (e.g. tsunamis);
• Multivariate analysis of extreme events;
• Coastal management decision support systems;
• Coastal monitoring and defense.

Dr. Daniela Pantusa
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Roberto Tomasicchio
Prof. Dr. Mario Maiolo
Dr. Felice D’Alessandro
Guest Editors

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