Beach nourishment—the addition of sand to increase the width or sand volume of the beach—
is a widespread coastal management technique to counteract coastal erosion. Globally …

The risk of flood disasters is increasing for many coastal societies owing to global and
regional changes in climate conditions, sea-level rise, land subsidence and sediment …

Flood exposure is increasing in coastal cities, owing to growing populations and assets, the
changing climate, and subsidence,,. Here we provide a quantification of present and future …

Coastal communities around the world face an increasing risk from flooding as a result of
rising sea level, increasing storminess and land subsidence,. Salt marshes can act as …

A new paradigm for planning under conditions of deep uncertainty has emerged in the
literature. According to this paradigm, a planner should create a strategic vision of the future …

Against the background of potentially substantial sea-level rise, one important question is to
what extent are coastal societies able to adapt? This question is often answered in the …

Deltas are highly sensitive to increasing risks arising from local human activities, land
subsidence, regional water management, global sea-level rise, and climate extremes. We …

Cities and settlements (C&S) by the sea are on the frontline of climate change—they face
climate-compounded risks that are amongst the highest, but are a key source of innovation …

This paper presents the output of our fifth annual horizon-scanning exercise, which aims to
identify topics that increasingly may affect conservation of biological diversity, but have yet to …

ABSTRACT Stive, MJF; de Schipper, MA; Luijendijk, AP; Aarninkhof, SGJ; van Gelder-Maas,
C.; van Thiel de Vries, JSM; de Vries, S.; Henriquez, M.; Marx, S., and Ranasinghe, R., 2013 …