Anthropocene Coasts - Call for papers: Special Issue on Coastal hazard risk in the Anthropocene
GUEST EDITORS:
Bruce Glavovic, Massey University, New Zealand (http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=664630 (this opens in a new tab))
Robert J. Nicholls, University of East Anglia, UK (https://tyndall.ac.uk/people/robert-nicholls/ (this opens in a new tab))
FOCUS OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE
Anthropocene Coasts, an open access journal, publishes multidisciplinary research that aims to understand and predict the effects of human activities, including climate change, on estuarine and coastal regions. The Anthropocene is the period during which human activities have had a marked, and often decisive, environmental impact on the Earth, whilst Coasts embraces all aspects of the land–sea interface.
For this Special Issue, Anthropocene Coasts invites manuscripts that focus on coastal hazard risk in the Anthropocene, including ecological, cultural, social, economic, and governance (including political, administrative, policy and legal) considerations.
We invite submissions that engage with the human dimensions of coastal hazard risk, including human drivers and root causes of coastal hazard risk in the Anthropocene - an era of global change, including climate change.
We are interested in how human activities have and are causing and / or compounding risk along the seashore, including sea level rise, ocean acidification, ecosystem degradation, etc. We are also interested in submissions that detail how coastal communities, cities and nations are responding to escalating coastal hazard risk, including coping mechanisms, adaptation efforts and transformative approaches.
Submissions may be theoretical, case study specific, or involve comparative analysis. We are interested in studies that engage with all dimensions of coastal hazard risk – from the human dimensions of coastal hazards to the exposure of coastal populations and localities; coastal vulnerability; and coastal risk governance.
Effective governance of coastal risk is enabled by better understanding how to build the resilience of coastal communities and involving them in identifying appropriate risk reduction and adaptation strategies. It is therefore important to strengthen the capabilities of the range of actors involved in coastal risk governance, including governments at all levels and the private sector, civil society and scientific community, to address escalating coastal risk in the Anthropocene.
Anthropocene Coasts is especially interested in studies that bridge disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, resilience, and sustainability sciences. We encourage submissions from both the Global North and South.
Update Milestones:
January 31st 2024: Open call for abstracts closes; submit MS for 2x independent review
June 30th 2024: Manuscript submission deadline
Note: The submission system for Anthropocene Coasts (http://www.editorialmanager.com/anth (this opens in a new tab)) only accepts complete manuscript submissions. If you would like to discuss your manuscript with the Guest Editors prior to submitting your full manuscript, to ensure it falls within the scope of this Special Collection, you are welcome to send your abstract to both Guest Editors, Professor Bruce Glavovic <B.Glavovic@massey.ac.nz (this opens in a new tab)> and Professor Robert J. Nicholls <Robert.Nicholls@uea.ac.uk (this opens in a new tab)>.