Future Earth Coasts
News and EventsIndicator System to support Coastal and Marine Management – A Baltic perspective | 30 May – 1 June 2017 | Cork, Ireland
Bringing the Baltic experience to Cork Last week, for the first time I had the opportunity to visit and explore the beautiful coastline of County Cork, Ireland. First of all, I was pretty surprised that Ireland’s seabed territory is one of the largest in Europe,...
A new synthesis of best practices in transdisciplinary science
Coastal vulnerability and freshwater security brochure from the first ever Belmont Forum Synthesis Workshop Future Earth Coasts and the Integration and Application Network released a synthesis of Belmont Forum projects addressing Coastal Vulnerability and...
You Can’t Eat Biodiversity: Agency and Irrational Norms in European Aquatic Environmental Law
You Can't Eat Biodiversity: Agency and Irrational Norms in European Aquatic Environmental Law Challenges in Sustainability | 2017 | Volume 5 | Issue 1 | Pages 43-51 Tim O'Higgins Policies of the European Union cover a range of social, environmental and economic...
ICAN – Best Practice Guide to Engage your Coastal Web Atlas User Community
Editors: Kathrin Kopke and Ned Dwyer The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) is a community of practice of organizations, who have been meeting since 2006, to share experiences and to find common solutions to Coastal Web Atlas (CWA) development. ICAN is a...
China: a tale of two cities
Beijing is a large bustling city of great dichotomies: the ancient and modern, the opulence and frugality, the imagery and simplicity. In contrast Yantai, as a smaller coastal city an hour’s flight south-east of Beijing, offers open space and arable lands...
Future Earth Coasts International Project Office
Future Earth Coasts is hosted by the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaREI) coordinated by the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork, Ireland with researcher groups located across 6 academic institutions across Ireland working with 45...
Oceans, Seas & Coasts in UN Sustainable Development Goals
The relevance of coasts to SDG Goal 14 Oceans, seas and coastal areas form an integrated and essential component of the Earth’s ecosystem and are critical to sustainable development. Coasts are the place where the connection between people and their prosperity with...
Invitation to Join Future Earth Coasts Community
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Estuarine Ecohydrology
Authored by Eric Wolanski and Mike Elliot, this publication provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components.
Climate change and the Coast
Authored by Bruce Glavovic, Mick Kelly, Robert Kay and Ailbhe Travers, Coastal communities are at the frontline of a changing climate.