Flood Hazard Projections and Adaptation Strategies in Low Lying Coastal Areas

Convenors: Andrea Sulis and Ioan Nistor

The question of how to adapt low lying coastal areas to flood hazard of the future is of great concern‚ - not only for scientists and engineers, but also for policy makers and risk practitioners. The proponents of this special session invite theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies to better understand future flood hazard in coastal areas and potential adaptation strategies. Multidisciplinary approaches across spatial and temporal scales are encouraged, especially in relation to definition of the best practices providing a critical analysis and identifying the challenges in their adoption and recommendations for their upscaling.