EDITORIAL article Front. Mar. Sci., 20 October 2022Sec. Coastal Ocean Processes Volume 9 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1066989

The development efforts of successive governments during the last several decades have led to growth in per capita incomes, increase in standard of living of the people and decrease in overall poverty levels. However, Sri Lanka faces a host of environmental problems such as land degradation, pollution and poor management of water resources, loss of biological diversity, coastal erosion, increas...

/ This paper reviews the state of the environment in Ghana and explores the potential for the use of institutional, legal, and economic instruments in environmental management in the specific context of this developing country.The environmental situation in Ghana is characterized by desertification, land degradation, deforestation, soil erosion, and inadequate water supply in the northern regio...

Coastal erosion of low latitude beaches frequently results in exposure of beachrock, layers of beach sand cemented in the subsurface by the intergranular precipitation of calcium carbonate. Exposed beachrock can have a profound impact on the event, seasonal, and long-term morphodynamics of a beach. The influence of beachrock on beach processes will largely depend on the extent and morphology of...

Lipari is the largest and most populated island in Aeolian Archipelago, a UNESCO site, highly frequented touristic destination. As many other insular settings, low-lying coastal stretches E NE sectors of are locally exposed to erosion flooding, enhanced by subsidence effects leading local sea level rise. Most these appear critical, being narrow increasingly threatened risk permanent inundation ...