Coastal Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies: From Monitoring to Applied Research

Pasquale Contestabile,Diego Vicinanza

doi:10.3390/w12092594

Pasquale Contestabile, Diego Vicinanza

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https://doi.org/10.3390/w12092594

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Abstract

This paper intends to offer the readers an overview of the Special Issue on Coastal Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies: From Monitoring to Applied Research. The main focus of this Special Issue is to provide the state-of-the-art and the recent research updates on the sustainable management strategies for protecting vulnerable coastal areas. Based on 28 contributions from authors from 17 different countries (Australia, China, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA), an ensemble of interdisciplinary articles has been collected, emphasizing the importance of tackling technical and scientific problems at different scales and from different point of views.

Highlights

Coastal management in the 21st century will require us to face multiple issues including climate change and impacts of sea level rise
The following research topics deserve greater attention to speed up the development of suitable coastal management strategies: (a)
An overall good agreement found between analytical solutions and laboratory tests has led, in conjunction with the measurement of experimental forces, to the calibration of the hydrodynamic coefficients in the Morison and transverse equations

Summary

Introduction

Coastal management in the 21st century will require us to face multiple issues including climate change and impacts of sea level rise. Conservation of coastal systems and ecosystems requires multidisciplinary inputs as well as integrated studies and approaches. The following research topics deserve greater attention to speed up the development of suitable coastal management strategies:. Relationship between coastal ecosystems and hydrodynamics; climate change effect on coastal areas; coastal morphodynamics; coastal vulnerability; integrated coastal management

Relationship between Coastal Ecosystem and Hydrodynamics

Coastal Climate

Coastal Morphodynamic

Coastal Vulnerability

Coastal Management

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