Nature-based solutions (NBS) for hydro-meteorological risks (HMRs) reduction and
management are becoming increasingly popular, but challenges such as the lack of well …

Flooding affects Mediterranean coastal areas, with negative impacts on regional populations
and ecosystems. This paper reviews the causes and consequences of coastal flooding in …

This baseline reports scientific evidence of marine litter items embedded in the dune volume
at two study sites on the North Atlantic Portuguese coast. We described how stranded litter …

Urbanization is provoking habitat loss and fragmentation, driving rapid landscape
transformation worldwide. Remnant habitats in urban areas can be especially prone to …

The controls that affect the degree of spatio-temporal change to foredunes following
scarping are reviewed herein. As sea-levels rises and climate changes, dune scarping will …

Starting from the importance of innovative solutions for improving the needs of different
practitioners as flood risk managers, the purpose of this review was to describe and analyze …

Coastal flooding estimation at large scale, eg pan-European is usually performed using
static method while dynamic method, in which numerical flood models are used to solve …

Climate change-driven forces and anthropogenic interventions have led to considerable
changes in coastal zones and shoreline positions, resulting in coastal erosion or …

During the second half of the last century, considerable anthropization processes were
observed throughout most of the Italian territory. These processes have altered the …

Coastal areas are exposed to high levels of human occupation, which has led to their
degradation. Coastal dunes have been greatly altered by different historical and current land …