With a global increase in coastal development, together with increasing storminess and
continuing sea level rise, coastal erosion has become a serious problem along a significant …

Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, a concept that has recently evolved from the notion
of employing ecosystem management approaches for reducing societal risks to disasters …

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Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation are connected through a
common goal: reducing the impacts of extreme events and increasing resilience to disasters …

Mangrove ecosystems store large amounts of carbon in biomass and sediments. This so
called 'blue carbon'that is captured by oceanic and coastal ecosystems plays an important …

Abstract The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 revealed the inferiority of hard engineering
solutions in coastal protection and provided sound evidence over the potential of coastal …

In the past few years, many advances in terms of research, implementation and policies
have taken place around the world with respect to understanding, capturing and facilitating …

The speculation of coastal land for tourism and housing has led to the rapid urbanization of
Chilean coastal settlements and to the reduction of critical ecosystems that contribute to …

This study investigates where coastal green infrastructure (CGI) can provide highest
potential coastal protection benefits, while considering its vulnerability to environmental …

In many developing and emerging tropical and subtropical countries, coastal dune systems
(CDS) are under high pressure, which leads to progressive degradation and loss of dune …