Building Sustainable Coastal Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

The coastal zone contains various landforms, including lagoons, estuaries, beaches, and many unique ecosystems. Unfortunately, like the world's most densely populated regions, our coastlines are increasingly facing enormous threats from climate change: rising sea levels, rising temperatures, ocean acidification, flooding, and extreme weather events. In addition, over the past 50 years, anthropogenic effects such as urbanization, pollution, land degradation, and biodiversity loss have affected these fragile ecosystems and coastal landforms, affecting infrastructure, communities, social activities, habitats, agriculture, fishing, and tourism.

The resilience of coastal and ocean ecosystems is the extent to which they can absorb recurrent natural and human disturbances and continue to regenerate without slowly degrading or unexpectedly shifting to alternative states. Innovative coastal management strategies, such as nature-based solutions and community fisheries, contribute to building a more resilient coastline. However, the cumulative impacts of a changing climate, rising GHG concentrations, and global temperatures make climate adaptation and mitigation even more challenging and vital. An integrated management approach that considers interactions within an ecosystem (e.g., human impacts, climate change, and stakeholders) is also necessary. The coast as a complex system requires constant collective efforts and the knowledge of global researchers to reinforce them.

In this Special Issue, we welcome related scholars to share their recent findings on this topic, preferably addressing climate change and coastal issues. Other topics that aim to build coastal resilience are also encouraged.

Dr. Gustavo Nagy
Prof. Dr. Md. Mustafa Saroar
Dr. Ernesto Brugnoli Olivera
Guest Editors

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• coast
• climatic risks
• adaptation
• sustainable development goals
• sandy beaches
• estuaries
• blue carbon
• vulnerability
• cumulative impacts