The coastal zone is a complex environment in which a variety of forcing factors interact causing shoreline evolution. Coastal managers seek to predict coastal evolution and to identify regions vulnerable to erosion. Here, a Bayesian network is developed to identify the primary factors influencing decadal-scale shoreline evolution of European coasts and to reproduce the observed evolution trends...

Coastal seas, marine part of the coastal zone, are particulary attractive for human society. Human activities involve interactions that can lead to conflicts and to ressources degradation. In order to analyse the coastal system, the Geomer laboratory has developed a modelling platform of Human Activities Dynamic (DAHU) which contains a specific module adapted to the human marine activities (DAH...

Sea shores of Gilan Province is one off the biggest tourist attractions in Iran. This area have valuable forests and grasslands. In addition it provides significant amount of corps like rice, tea, olive. Considering this facts, environmental protection of this area must be priority for national government. However waste management instruction have been ratified in Iran, there isn’t any specific...

Sustainable management of highly dynamic coastal topography with fast moving sand dunes, eroding shoreline and anthropogenic changes to bathymetry and beaches represent significant challenges for coastal management. Modern mapping technologies bring capabilities to monitor this dynamic environment with unprecedented spatial and temporal detail. The general research strategy for coastal areas [1...

In the context of global climate change, flooding and sea level rise is increasingly threatening coastal urban areas, in which large population is continuously concentrated. Dutch experiences in urban water system management provide high reference value for sustainable coastal urban development projects. Preliminary studies shows the urban water system in Almere, a typical Dutch polder city, ha...

1 Department of Geography and Environment, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, USA, 2 Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, USA, 3 Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Eastern Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center, Rayong, Thailand, 4 Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ...

Coastal management and decision-making requires timely and accurate multidimensional geospatial data that often reside in government agencies, organizations, and institutions on various levels. Integration of such data involves research on the spatial and temporal characteristics of coastal geospatial information, interoperability of spatial databases and tools, and distributed and mobile techn...

The overall objective of this paper is to identify coastal zone management problems within Mombasa Diani area. Other objectives included evaluating the effectiveness of the existing control measures and identifying response strategies for the affected areas. The results showed that coastal dunes and beach ridges, cliffed coasts and backshore areas could be developed but with proper set back lin...

Previous research on exposure to flood hazards suggests that individuals characterized by low social vulnerability are more likely to reside in coastal flood hazard zones than individuals of higher social vulnerability, but few studies have examined if similar exposure patterns can be observed in inland flood hazard zones. This paper examines differences in environmental justice implications be...