Conference Title: The Impact of Climate Change and Human Interventions on Coastal Zones
We are pleased to welcome you to the 6th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS-6) addressing the impacts of climate change and human interventions on coastal zones. The conference will be held online and promoted and facilitated by the open-access MDPI Journal Water .
In the last few years, five International Electronic Conferences on Water Sciences (ECWS-1, ECWS-2, ECW-3, ECWS-4 and ECWS-5) have addressed a variety of important water-related aspects. A sixth conference focusing on the impact of climate change and human interventions on coastal zones in the Anthropocene is considered timely. The Earth’s most recent geologic time period is a complex mix of climatic changes and human interventions. There exists overwhelming regional as well as global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric, and other earth-system compartments and processes are now altered by a wide diversity of anthropogenic activities. Different aspects of the interactions between water and the coastal geo-, bio- and ecosphere in the context of global changes will be considered in this conference.
The ECWS-6 invites researchers from academia as well as practioners to contribute original results, novel ideas, scientific concepts and new technologies and experiences to deal with processes within the context of coastal change, making reference to the following topics framed in a changing coastal environment with a special focus on sustainability, resilience, and adaptation:
- The impact of eustatic and regional sea level rise on coasts, estuaries and deltas in terms of flood risk and hazard assessment
- The impact of eustatic and regional sea level rise on coasts, estuaries and deltas on coastal ecology
- The impact of climate change induced changes in wave and storm surge climate on coasts, estuaries and deltas in terms of flood risk and hazard assessment
- The impact of climate change induced changes in wave and storm surge climate on coasts, estuaries and deltas on coastal ecology
- Soft and hard interventions to adapt to and mitigate abiotic and biotic coastal change due to climate change and human interventions
- Assessing the functioning and services of socio-economic and ecological coastal systems
and also a Poster session. Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper and will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, they will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
This event will solely be an online proceeding which allows the participation from all over the world with no concerns of travel and related expenditures. An electronic conference provides a platform for rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas. The participation as well as the “attendance” of this online conference is free of charge.
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference, and selected papers will be published in Water with a 20% discount off the APC.
We hope the community will share this enthusiasm and help making this 6th edition a success—for many to come in the future.
Conference Secretariat:
Ms. Aurora LiMs. Angel Wang
Ms. Jade Wei
Email: ecws@mdpi.com
Dr. Fangxin Fang
from Session: The impact of climate change-induced changes in wave and storm surge climate on coasts, estuaries and deltas in terms of flood risk and hazard assessment
Prof. Dr. Marcel J.F. Stive