全文截稿: 2021-07-31
影响因子: 4.767
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区
• 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区
网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-science-and-policy
Globally, expanding coastal populations and economic activities have resulted in coastal zones becoming global hotspots of commercial, residential, industrial and transport infrastructure. The livelihoods of millions of people are nowadays intimately linked to coastal environments, and societal reliance on coastal resources and ecosystem services is ever increasing. However, coastal environments are intrinsically dynamic which, when compounded by human-induced environmental changes and pressures, creates unprecedented challenges for coastal areas worldwide.
Around the coast of Africa, there has been significant progress in analyzing the dynamics of coastal environments, investigating habitats and species, as well as assessing and managing human uses of the coast. Despite this, the rising pressures from climate change, population growth, urbanization, pollution and over-exploitation of resources, have expanded the type and magnitude of coastal hazards experienced along the African coastline. Chronic and emerging coastal issues, such as coastal erosion, habitat fragmentation and species decline, extreme events and sea level rise, loss of resilient coastal ecosystems or increased exposure and vulnerability of coastal communities, are major barriers to sustainable socio, economic and environmental development in African coastal zones. Many of which remain under-reported in the scientific literature.
Thus, to advance the understanding and management of coastal hazards in Africa, this Special Issue of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (ECSS) aims to showcase the exciting, high-quality and innovative research on coastal hazards focused on the African coast. We welcome contributions that fit ECSS scope and explore coastal, estuarine and marine hazards with a regional focus on Africa and that demonstrate novelty and content that is internationally relevant. All submissions will be subject to the rigorous peer-review and editorial processes undertaken at ECSS.
ECSS is an international multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal focussed on the study of the oceanography of estuaries, coastal zones and continental shelf seas. If features original research papers, review papers and short communications in a wide range of disciplines that investigate coastal and marine processes. Its coverage spans zoology, botany, geology, sedimentology, physical oceanography and more. Full details on the ECSS scope, publications options and submission guidelines can be found here.
