Dear Colleagues,

A sixth conference focusing on the impact of climate change and human interventions on coastal zones in the Anthropocene is considered timely. The Earth’s most recent geologic time period is a complex mix of climatic changes and human interventions. While climatic change has been a continuous process over time, with sea levels rising and falling in cycles, these cycles were considered the result of natural geological processes. However, there now exists overwhelming regional and global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric, and other earth-system compartments and processes are now altered by a wide diversity of anthropogenic activities. Different aspects of the interactions between water and the coastal geo-, bio- and ecosphere in the context of global changes have been considered in this conference.

The ECWS-6 invited researchers from academia as well as practicioners to contribute original results, novel ideas, scientific concepts and new technologies and experiences to deal with processes within the context of coastal change, making reference to the following topics framed in a changing coastal environment, with a special focus on sustainability, resilience, and adaptation:

1. The impact of eustatic and regional sea level rise on coasts, estuaries and deltas in terms of flood risk and hazard assessment;
2. The impact of eustatic and regional sea level rise on coasts, estuaries and deltas on coastal ecology;
3. The impact of climate-change-induced changes in wave and storm surge climate on coasts, estuaries and deltas in terms of flood risk and hazard assessment;
4. The impact of climate-change-induced changes in wave and storm surge climate on coasts, estuaries and deltas on coastal ecology;
5. Soft and hard interventions to adapt to and mitigate abiotic and biotic coastal change due to climate change and human interventions;
6. Assessing the functioning and services of socio-economic and ecological coastal systems.

The invitation resulted in sixteen international contributions to the online conference, and the corresponding papers have been invited for submission to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Marcel J.F. Stive
Prof. Dr. José Jiménez
Prof. Dr. Yongping Chen
Guest Editors

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• coastal risks
• flood dynamics
• coastal squeeze
• wave and tide impact
• dune dynamics
• mangrove dynamics
• coral reef dynamics
• river–coast interaction
• coastal hydrology
• coastal sediment dynamics
• coastal morphology