We analyse optimal investment in one of the most important forms of climate adaptation: flood protection. Investments to build and heighten dykes and surge barriers involve considerable adjustment costs, so that their construction locks in the level of flood protection for some time. Investment...

Purpose - Coastal zone ecological restoration project is of great significance to alleviate marine ecological degradation. Evaluating the effect of coastal ecological restoration projects and identifying the obstacle factors affecting their restoration level can provide an empirical basis for...

We present two case studies in which coastal vulnerability modeling was used to quantify the role those coastal ecosystems play in reducing risk to coastal communities now and with future sealevel rise. These analyses were used to inform post-disaster reconstruction and coastal resilience...

The Mangroves provides support in various ways regarding the safeguarding of the coastal section from the exasperation of environmental disasters instigated due to alteration of weather pattern, specifically providing so as to fight against the consequences like rising sea level, invasion of...

This paper assesses the local economic impact of pelagic Sargassum seaweed washed ashore in tourism-heavy coastal zones in the Mexican State of Quintana Roo. The study relies on a carefully designed geographic information systems (GIS) dataset of monthly observations from 2016 to 2019 for 157...

Erosion and flooding are the most visible consequences of coastal zone degradation in West Africa. Man-made and natural processes, aggravated by the effects of climate change, cause erosion and flooding. These threatened densely populated coasts, the nerve center of the region's demographic and...

Climate change has reached its “all hands on deck” moment, requiring simultaneous mitigation and adaptation efforts and the participation of all branches of government at all levels—including (and maybe especially) the administrative state. However, while certain agency exercises of...

The cost of environmental degradation (COED) report focuses on Georgia's coastal zone. Georgia's coastal zone is crucial to the national economy but has been affected by substantial environmental degradation. This report estimates the impact of degradation that occurred in 2017, as a result of...

Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...

Approximately 4.1 million people live in the three states of the Yucatán Peninsula: Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche. Some 30 municipalities are in a coastal territory of almost 2,000 linear kilometers, spanning the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico to the world-renowned beaches of Cancún,...

The capital structure of fast-growing startups makes them vulnerable to value-destroying acquisitions. Founders in early-stage startups own a large fraction of their company's equity, which gives them powerful incentives to deliver growth. But there is an underappreciated downside to tying...

In a country that is among the most exposed to natural hazards, Vietnam’s coastline often bears the brunt. Typhoons, storm surges, riverine flooding, coastal erosion, droughts, or saline intrusion are all-too-familiar threats to most people living along the coast. Yet despite these risks,...

The sustainable management of coastal zones requires appropriate tools within the framework of the Blue Economy. This paper adopts a supply/coastal zone perspective to investigate key issues and aspects related to the implementation of coastal tourism initiatives. The main research question is:...

Previous research suggests that coastal housing values capitalize the quality of nearby beaches, with distance from the shore playing a key role, and that there are potential problems related to measurement errors and reverse causation due to policy interventions. We offer the first analysis in...

Coastal and marine areas represent an increasingly important and relevant action space for spatial planning. However, to a large extent marine (or maritime) spatial planning has emerged separately from terrestrial spatial planning, constituting its own epistemic community. In particular,...

Purpose - After the 19th CPC national congress, Chinese Communist Party and the government put forward higher requirements for the development of coastal zones, and it is urgent to establish an integrated coastal zone management system, so as to better guarantee the construction of maritime...

Measures against marine litter require quantitative data for the assessment of litter abundance, trends and distribution. While beach litter monitoring has been ongoing in some European areas since years, so far it was yet not possible to obtain an overview and to analyse litter abundance,...

Revealed and stated preference survey data from North Carolina households are utilized to estimate a joint structural microeconometric model of recreation demand and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for coastal erosion management among beach visitors and non-visitors. We test for and reject weak...

Summary -- Setting the scene -- Analysis of interactions between Biodiversity (B), Ecosystem Services (ES), and Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) -- Direct and indirect drivers of change indifferent perspectives of human well-being (quality of life) -- Options for governance,...