Research on Water Resources Planning and Management in Coastal Areas

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".

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Departamento de Física e Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (CESAM), Campus de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: coastal and transitional water planning and management; coastal morpho- and hydrodynamics; integrated coastal spatial planning; satellite oceanography; coastal overtopping and flooding; GIS and remote sensing
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RISCO & Department of Civil Engineering, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: sediment dynamics; shoreline evolution in a medium- to long-term perspective; numerical modeling; vulnerability and risk classification of coastal areas; cost and benefit analysis of coastal erosion mitigation strategies; artificial nourishments and integrated coastal zone planning and management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Estuaries and coastal zones have aquatic ecosystems with high biodiversity, but also under high anthropogenic pressure worldwide. The planning and management of transitional and coastal water bodies are essential to prevent their deterioration and increase the protection and quality of aquatic ecosystems, as well as those of the terrestrial areas and wetlands that directly depend on them.

In this regard, it is important to disseminate the most up-to-date scientific knowledge on water resource planning and management in transition and coastal areas. Thus, this Special Issue invites significant research on in situ and remote sensing monitoring (e.g., physical parameters, microplastics), pressure analysis and assessment methodologies, hydromorphology changes and impacts, risk degradation, assessment of climate change impact on water quality, water quality modeling, nature-based solutions and measures for water quality restauration and ecosystem improvement, and decision support systems.

Dr. Joaquim Pais-Barbosa
Dr. Carlos Daniel Borges Coelho
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Keywords

  • planning and management
  • transitional and coastal waters
  • monitoring
  • pressure assessment
  • nature-based solutions
  • climate change
  • numeric modeling
  • water quality restauration
  • decision support systems

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Planning and Management of Coastal Buffer Zones in Taiwan
by Yuan-Jyh Lan and Tai-Wen Hsu
Water 2021, 13(20), 2925; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w13202925 - 18 Oct 2021
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Overuse of coastal regions may lead to coastal erosion and shoreline retreat, threatening the inherent life and property of the coast. This is because typhoon waves with storm surges frequently attack overdeveloped coasts and related structures. In the present study, coastal buffer and [...] Read more.
Overuse of coastal regions may lead to coastal erosion and shoreline retreat, threatening the inherent life and property of the coast. This is because typhoon waves with storm surges frequently attack overdeveloped coasts and related structures. In the present study, coastal buffer and protection zones were defined for the management of coastal disasters. The coastal buffer zone may offer remarkable advantages to avoid improper coastal use and limit the impact of extreme events by reducing erosion, mitigating coastal disasters, improving water quality, expanding habitats, and minimizing coastal degradation. Further, factors affecting the establishment of coastal buffer zones were classified according to natural and anthropogenic characteristics. Moreover, regarding the direction of research into coastal buffer zones, themes and countermeasures for coastal buffer zone management were discussed from the perspectives of technology, planning, and management policies. Finally, the application of numerical models to assess the impact factors in coastal buffer zones are proposed. Full article
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