Climate Change and Sustainable Marine Ecosystem Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 381
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Earth and Environment, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia
Interests: microbial ecology; sea level; climate change; coral reef ecology; coastal geomorpholy; ecosystem services
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Interests: water quality; water; resource management; water resources; engineering environment; hydrological modeling; economic analysis; climate change; environmental impact assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ocean, coastlines, and coastal communities are being disproportionately impacted by increasing carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
As a consequence, this has led to increased ocean stratification and acidification, rising sea level and increasing sea surface temperatures, changes in ocean currents, changes in marine species ranges and shifts in growing seasons, as well as changes in diversity, abundance, and community composition. At the same time, weather patterns are changing, with extreme weather events increasing in frequency.
The ocean and coastal zones provide critical ecosystem services such as carbon storage, oxygen generation, food and income generation, as well as flood and storm protection. The degradation of coastal and marine ecosystems threatens the physical, economic, and food security of coastal communities—around 50% of the world’s population lives within 100 km from the coastline.
Weakened or lost ecosystems increase human vulnerability to climate change and undermine the ability of countries to implement climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures.
Sustainable management, conservation and restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems are vital to support the continued provision of carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services on which people depend. Protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems is needed.
We welcome submissions on the analyses of the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems, designed to advise on adequate and appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Dr. Sander Scheffers
Prof. Dr. Peter Coombes
Guest Editors
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