Defining coastal resilience

G Masselink, ED Lazarus - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The concept of resilience has taken root in the discourse of environmental management,
especially regarding Building with Nature strategies for embedding natural physical and …

Is 're-mobilisation'nature restoration or nature destruction? A commentary

I Delgado-Fernandez, RGD Davidson-Arnott… - Journal of Coastal …, 2019 - Springer
Coastal dunes are experiencing increases in vegetation cover and reduced mobility levels
in many sites around the world. Ecology-led approaches to coastal dune management …

Dynamic assessment of urban resilience to natural hazards

M Feofilovs, F Romagnoli - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 - Elsevier
The current urbanization and increase of intensity and likelihood of natural hazard events
underline that particular attention must be addressed to strengthening urban resilience to …

[HTML][HTML] Operationalising coastal resilience to flood and erosion hazard: A demonstration for England

IH Townend, JR French, RJ Nicholls, S Brown… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Resilience is widely seen as an important attribute of coastal systems and, as a concept, is
increasingly prominent in policy documents. However, there are conflicting ideas on what …

[HTML][HTML] Geomorphic insights into Australia's coastal change using a national dataset derived from the multi-decadal Landsat archive

R Nanson, R Bishop-Taylor, S Sagar… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Australia has a vast, diverse and dynamic shoreline, and national perspectives on the
mechanisms, magnitude and trajectories of coastal adjustment are required to underpin …

Sand spit dynamics in a large tidal‐range environment: Insight from multiple LiDAR, UAV and hydrodynamic measurements on multiple spit hook development …

N Robin, F Levoy, EJ Anthony… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sand spits with distal hooks have been well documented from coasts with low to moderate
tidal ranges, unlike high tidal‐range environments. Datasets from 15 LiDAR and 3 UAV …

The resilience of Amazon tree cover to past and present drying

T Kukla, A Ahlström, SY Maezumi, M Chevalier… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Amazon forest is increasingly vulnerable to dieback and encroachment of grasslands
and agricultural fields. Threats to these forested ecosystems include drying, deforestation …

The Green Infrastructure of sandy coastlines: A Nature-Based Solution for mitigation of climate change risks

J Knight - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Natural coastal landforms such as sand dunes and sandy beaches have been proposed as
green infrastructure that can reduce climate change risks along coastlines. As such, they can …

[HTML][HTML] The birth of backbarrier marshes in Culatra Island (Ria Formosa, South Portugal)

K Kombiadou, AR Carrasco, S Costas… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid elongation of Culatra Island, a sandy barrier in the Ria Formosa chain (S.
Portugal), since the mid-1940s led to the formation of three new embayments in its …

Geoheritage Resilience Assessment for Geoconservation Planning in Lorestan Province, Iran

F Moradipour, A Moradi, M Yamani - Geoheritage, 2024 - Springer
This study is an initial attempt to introduce the concept of geoheritage resilience, which
refers to the capacity of a geosite and its system to absorb, adapt, or resist disturbances, and …