Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Dear Colleagues,

The world’s coastal zones are under enormous pressure due to the pressures from a multitude of human activities such as tourism, transportation, mining/aggregate abstraction, lagoon and river delta exploitation, urban sprawl, ports/harbours, fisheries, aquaculture, heavy industry, agriculture, and recreation, which all compete for space and natural resources. Integrated coastal-zone management is a multi-field science that aims to construct integrated management plans that include many different activities, establish a system for conflict resolution between activities to minimise their negative economic effects through trade-offs, support and maintain the ecosystem services of coastal areas, and introduce sustainability in the exploitation of space and natural resources. Integrated coastal management aims to improve the economic benefits from the exploitation of coastal zones through the minimisation of the environmental footprint of the activities and the support and improvement of social welfare through the security of jobs and income.

This Special Issue will attempt to cover the above issues through several sections, depending on the interest shown by potential authors worldwide. The main sections envisaged at this point are as follows:

(a) Assessment of social and economic effects of conflicts between coastal activities; valuation of externalities imposed on various activities due to conflicts;

(b) Environmental management and monitoring of coastal zones (including telemetry, IoT systems, and others) as well as environmental effects of activities;

(c) Ecosystem services of coastal zone ecosystems; estuaries, beaches, marine domain, lagoons, wetlands, dunes, etc.; coastal oceanography; coastal ecology;

(d) Legal aspects of coastal zone management plans;

(e) Techniques for integrated coastal zone management plans; GIS, multi-criteria methods; surveys and census data analysis;

(f) Socio-economic analyses of activities;

(g) Complete case studies;

(h) Analysis of coastal development projects and their effect on coastal zone management; ports/harbours/fishing refuges; beach reclamation; wetland reclamation; coastal land-based aquaculture, etc.

Dr. Alexis Conides
Guest Editor

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• Coastal environment
• Coastal oceanography
• Coastal ecology
• Integrated coastal zone management
• Coastal planning
• Coastal development
• Socio-economic analysis