Worldwide, humans are facing high risks from natural hazards, especially in coastal regions with high population densities. Rising sea levels due to global warming are making coastal communities’ infrastructure vulnerable to natural disasters. The present study aims to provide a coupling approach of vulnerability and resilience through restoration and conservation of lost or degraded coastal na...

In the past 25 years, rising of the Caspian Sea level, part of a natural treat to the sea, has inundated and destroyed many buildings and arable lands and threatened many inhabitations in coastal areas. The main reason for these damages is that the law-setback has lost its efficiency and human activities have proceeded seaward. The goal of this study is to introduce a proper setback line for th...

We evaluate regional differences in road recovery in Miyagi Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. We divided Miyagi Prefecture into three areas, i.e., Inland, Northern Coastal, and Southern Coastal areas. According to the results of our study, we conclude that the recovery conditions of regional roads in different areas of Miyagi Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake differ...

At present, there is no dedicated software platform for the coastal zone remote sensing information extraction. For the complexity of the coastal zone targets which contains shoreline, vegetation and coastal zone types and so on, users can not extract information automatically by computers, so users need operate extraction by comparing to interpreting marks and remote sense images frequently. I...

we measured the impacts of coastal modification on beach erosion and beach retreat conditions, selecting the miankaleh region as an example of a complex high-pressure free zone with high levels of engineering and tourism activity. nine sampling transects, stretching from the shoreline to a 10 meter depth, were defined and 36 sediment samples were collected from the sea bed at depths of 1, 3, 5,...

sustainable coastal fishing management includes different components and factors. one of the practical initiatives to achieve sustainability is to evaluate or measure different criteria of sustainability and measuring sustainability of each system needs its own indicators. this study aimed to investigate different criteria of sustainable coastal fishing management in beach seine cooperatives (b...

Citation: Newell R, Canessa R and Sharma T (2017) Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:290. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00290 Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Co...

Anthropogenic activity has a negative impact on many coastal ecosystems, compromising the significant direct and indirect socio-economic benefits provided in these areas. Maintaining activities that depend on coastal zones while preserving the ecological state of the ecosystems represents a management challenge. Management of coastal zones requires scientifically based knowledge, due to the com...