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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 May 2021) | Viewed by 14495

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Dr. Thomas Klenke

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University of Oldenburg Centre for Environment and Sustainability Research (COAST) P.O. Box 2503, 26122 Oldenburg, Germany
Interests: marine and coastal management, transdisciplinary action for sustainable development

Dr. Gabriela Cuadrado Quesada

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IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: integrated coastal management; water governance; environmental governance; water conflicts and management

Prof. Dr. Luis M. Mejía-Ortíz

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Sustainability Division, University of Quintana Roo, Cozumel, Mexico
Interests: Integrated coastal management; governance of natural protected areas

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Dear Colleagues,

The ability to live, work, and relax on coasts and beaches continues to expand societal development across the globe. Concurrently, fundamental changes in social–ecological systems related to marine realms urge societies to improve their practices of managing coastal and marine regions in a sustainable way. This is also an ambitious task for transdisciplinary researchers of the world-wide scientific community.
The Special Issue collates contributions on innovations and frontiers in research on systems, developments, and practices in coastal and marine regions all over the ‘’Seven Seas’’. Emphasis is given to papers that have clear potential in supporting societies at different scales to make progress in defining strategies and implementing schemes in integrated coastal management, marine/maritime spatial planning, and ocean governance.
We encourage submissions that are likely to tackle the lock-ins of current management practices and to provide crucial pieces of knowledge or adequate support tools, e.g.,

Application and verification of relevant concepts (e.g., ecosystem services, resilience, adaptive governance, etc.);
Diagnosis of practices with respect to success and short-comings;
Comparative analysis of social-ecological systems and regulatory regimes;
Application and improvements of methods for stake-holder-driven integrated asessments and planning tools;
Studies of inter-sectoral collaboration and cummulative impacts;
Management of sea–coast–hinterland relations, including mass and energy transport as well as supply and value chains.

We are looking forward to learning about your research for the benefit of our precious marine regions and related societies.

Dr. Thomas Klenke
Dr. Gabriela Cuadrado Quesada
Prof. Luis M. Mejía Ortíz
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ecosystem-based maritime activities
societal involvement and ownership
sea–land continuum
adaptive policy and regulations
marine and coastal governance

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Effects of Industrial Land Conveyance on Coastal Marine Pollution: An Spatial Durbin Econometric Analysis

by Qiuguang Hu and Weiteng Shen

Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7209; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13137209 - 28 Jun 2021

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Compared to inland areas, coastal areas display more frequent economic activity in China. Unfortunately, they also have the greatest impact on the coastal environment. Among the economic activities in coastal areas, industrial land conveyance not only has a profound impact on local economic growth, but also poses a greater threat to coastal water. Using panel data collected from 45 coastal cities during the period 2007–2017, this study constructed a spatial Durbin model to investigate the effects of industrial land conveyance on coastal marine pollution. Results show that the expansion of two-lagged agreement-based industrial land conveyance areas in a coastal city can increase coastal marine pollution. Meanwhile, the positive impacts of the two-lagged industrial land conveyance and the industrial land conveyance areas, through bidding, auction, and listing, on coastal marine pollution are statistically significant but economically insignificant. Furthermore, the two-lagged industrial land conveyance areas have a spatial spillover effect on coastal marine pollution. Specifically, the expansion of such areas from a coastal city can increase the marine pollution of other coastal cities. Full article

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Measuring the Impact of Physical Geographical Factors on the Use of Coastal Zones Based on Bayesian Networks

by Eglė Baltranaitė, Loreta Kelpšaitė-Rimkienė, Ramūnas Povilanskas, Ilona Šakurova and Vitalijus Kondrat

Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7173; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13137173 - 25 Jun 2021

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Coastal regions of the Baltic Sea are among the most intensively used worldwide, resulting in a need for a holistic management approach. Therefore, there is a need for strategies that even out the seasonality, which would ensure a better utilization of natural resources and infrastructure and improve the social and economic conditions. To assess the effectiveness of coastal zone planning processes concerning sustainable tourism and to identify and substantiate significant physical geographical factors impacting the sustainability of South Baltic seaside resorts, several data sets from previous studies were compiled. Seeking to improve the coastal zone’s ecological sustainability, economic efficiency, and social equality, a qualitative study (content analysis of planning documents) and a quantitative survey of tourists’ needs expressed on a social media platform and in the form of a survey, as well as long-term hydrometeorological data, were used. Furthermore, a Bayesian Network framework was used to combine knowledge from these different sources. We present an approach to identifying the social, economic, and environmental factors influencing the sustainability of coastal resorts. The results of this study may be used to advise local governments on a broad spectrum of Integrated Coastal Management matters: planning the development of the beaches and addressing the seasonality of use, directing investments to improve the quality of the beaches and protect them from storm erosion, and maintaining the sand quality and beach infrastructure. The lessons learned can be applied to further coastal zone management research by utilizing stakeholders and expert opinion in quantified current beliefs. Full article

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Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Their Drivers of Change under Human-Dominated Pressure—The Meghna River Estuary of Bangladesh

by Mohammad Yusuf Miah, Mohammad Mosarof Hossain, Petra Schneider, Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder, Sabrina Jannat Mitu and Md. Mostafa Shamsuzzaman

Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4458; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13084458 - 16 Apr 2021

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The Meghna river estuary has had substantial importance in supporting the coastal community’s livelihood for decades, but the pressure on it is immense due to many anthropogenic drivers. The present study aimed to assess its ecosystem services (ES) according to the framework of the standard international classification of ecosystem services (CICES). This study also identified the drivers, pressure, state, impact, and responses (DPSIR), and the factors responsible for ES changes in the Meghna river estuarine ecosystems. By merging both quantitative and qualitative data, a total of 19 sub-categories of ES were found, among which eight are provisioning, seven are regulatory, and four are cultural services, according to the CICES framework. From the results, it can be concluded that food provisioning from the Hilsha fishery, the national fish as a part of cultural heritage, and nursery habitat functions were the top provisional, regulatory, and cultural services to the society in the study areas and beyond. However, several threats and stressors of both anthropogenic and natural origins were identified as drivers of ES changes, such as overexploitation, destructive and illegal fishing, heavy river bed siltation, and natural hazards such as extreme cyclonic events, floods, and sea levels rising. This study underlines the urgency of research and policy attention to address the challenges, and of transforming management regimes to an ecosystem-based approach, which is part of nature-based solutions according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which refers to the present case, and particularly to fishery co-management. Creating alternative income sources and raising community awareness regarding the importance of maintaining the healthy condition of the river basins, and comprehensive compliance with the rules and regulations are proposed in order to ensure these estuarine ecosystems’ sustainability. Full article

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Feasibility Analysis of the Sustainability of the Tres Palos Coastal Lagoon: A Multifactorial Approach

by Ana I. Casarrubias-Jaimez, Ana Laura Juárez-López, José Luis Rosas-Acevedo, Maximino Reyes-Umaña, América Libertad Rodríguez-Herrera and Fernando Ramos-Quintana

Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 537; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13020537 - 08 Jan 2021

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We studied the cultural eutrophication process assessments of coastal lagoons by considering sociopolitical, socioeconomic, demographic, technological, and cultural factors, which represent indirect drivers exerting effects on the eutrophication process, causing changes on the trophic status. Multifactorial interactions in eutrophication processes make understanding their complex dynamics difficult, leading to unreliable assessments and, consequently, to unsustainable management actions. This, in turn, hinders the feasibility of coastal lagoon sustainability. We propose a method based on the evaluation of pathways derived from a multifactorial network, which represents the eutrophication process, with the aim of determining the feasibility of the sustainability of the Tres Palos coastal lagoon. Our findings revealed that most of the evaluations of relationships belonging to pathways were unfeasible due to reasons such as: there was no evidence of the existence of public policies, technological skills, and cultural factors; there was a lack of data related to human settlements around the lagoon and river, industrial waste, agricultural practices, and tourism. The preceding shortcomings hinder the feasibility of coastal lagoon sustainability under study. We suggest that assessments of cultural eutrophication processes that overlook sociopolitical, socioeconomic, technological, and cultural factors are limited and inadequate for supporting the feasibility of sustainable coastal lagoons. Full article

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A Framework to Manage Coastal Squeeze

by Rodolfo Silva, María Luisa Martínez, Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek, Laura Odette Guzmán-Rodríguez, Edgar Mendoza and Jorge López-Portillo

Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10610; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su122410610 - 18 Dec 2020

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The coastal zone is in a critical state worldwide, due to the loss and fragmentation of its ecosystems. Much of this is caused by long-term anthropic local, regional, or global actions, which drive coastal squeeze processes. Most of the criteria to evaluate the effects of coastal squeeze are focused on merely identifying its effect on the coastal zone. Here, we propose a framework to manage (identify, analyze, quantify, and tackle) the effect of coastal squeeze. This DESCR framework examines the relations between Drivers, Exchanges, and States of the environment to subsequently evaluate the chronic, negative Consequences and determine possible Responses. To illustrate the application of the DESCR framework, the coastal zone of Puerto Morelos, in the Mexican Caribbean, was studied using this approach. We analyzed the systemic interactions among the coastal ecosystems in this area, such as coral reefs, seagrass beds, beach, coastal dunes, and mangroves, which have been altered over the last decades, resulting in a severe coastal squeeze. Recommended responses include urgent measures for ecosystem management to mitigate the coastal squeeze. Full article

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