Climate change and its impacts, combined with unchecked human activities, intensify
pressures on coastal environments, resulting in modification of the coastal morphodynamics …

Resilience has been used over a wide range of scientific fields and often ambiguously,
causing confusion over terminology and concepts and giving rise to distinct interpretations …

Worldwide, climate change adaptation in coastal areas is a growing challenge. The most
common solutions such as seawalls and breakwaters are expensive and often lead to …

Process‐based morphodynamic models can be useful in understanding coastal dune
responses to disturbances, as well as possible evolutionary patterns. To this aim, we employ …

The alongshore response of dunes to storm events can be extremely variable and,
consequently, their capacity to maintain their services, including the protection of hinterland …

Beaches combined with sloping structures are frequently the first element of defense to
protect urban areas from the impact of extreme coastal flooding events. However, these …

Currently, artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of academic and public debate. However,
its implications on politics remain little understood. To understand the impact of the AI …

Human occupation of and alteration of the world's coast has transformed large stretches of it
into Coupled Human-Natural Systems (CHANS) in which humans both influence and are …

Living by the coast is a high-risk choice, but most people do it voluntarily. At Faro Beach, a
heavily urbanized settlement located on a sandy barrier peninsula exposed to coastal …

Portugal is located in the southwest of Europe. From economic, cultural, social and
environmental point of views, Portuguese coastal areas face multiple challenges related to …