Towards coastal resilience and sustainability (1st)

Coastal zones represent a frontline in the battle for sustainability, as coastal communities face unprecedented economic challenges.

Coastal ecosystems are subject to overuse, loss of resilience and increased vulnerability.

This book aims to interrogate the multi-scalar complexities in creating a more sustainable coastal zone.

Sustainability transitions are geographical processes, which happen in situated, particular places.

However, much contemporary discussion of transition is either aspatial or based on implicit assumptions about spatial homogeneity.

This book addresses these limitations through an examination of socio-technological transitions with an explicitly spatial focus in the context of the coastal zone.