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Selected papers from the Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters Joint Conference 2015, held in Boston, Massachusetts, September 9–11, 2015. Sponsored by the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute of ASCE. This collection contains 26 peer-reviewed papers on all aspects of tsunamis. Topics include: tsunami generation and modeling; tsunami measurement and mitigation; tsunami morphology, sediments, and debris; and tsunami structure. This proceedings is a companion to Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities and will be valuable to engineers, managers, planners, scientists, geologists, economists, oceanographers, and meteorologists working to reduce future impacts of coastal hazards.

Disasters. --- Coastal Disasters. --- Tsunamis --- Natural disasters --- Joints --- Seas and oceans --- Ports and harbors --- Rivers and streams --- Professional societies --- Structural models

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Marine management requires approaches which bring together the best research from the natural and social sciences. It requires stakeholders to be well-informed by science and to work across administrative and geographical boundaries, a feature especially important in the inter-connected marine environment. Marine management must ensure that the natural structure and functioning of ecosystems is maintained to provide ecosystem services. Once those marine ecosystem services have been created, they deliver societal goods as long as society inputs its skills, time, money and energy to gather those benefits. However, if societal goods and benefits are to be limitless, society requires appropriate administrative, legal and management mechanisms to ensure that the use of such benefits do not impact on environmental quality, but instead support its sustainable use.

environmental assessment --- socio-economic barriers --- Marine indicators --- Marine Biodiversity --- innovative monitoring --- human pressures --- oceans health --- integrative assessment --- socio-ecological systems --- modelling

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This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such an approach, particularly for small island developing states and coastal least developed countries; to identify some of the key challenges its adoption poses; and to suggest some broad next steps that are called for in order to ensure its implementation. Although the term "blue economy" has been used in different ways, it is understood here as comprising the range of economic sectors and related policies that together determine whether the use of oceanic resources is sustainable. An important challenge of the blue economy is thus to understand and better manage the many aspects of oceanic sustainability, ranging from sustainable fisheries to ecosystem health to pollution. A second significant issue is the realization that the sustainable management of ocean resources requires collaboration across nation-states and across the public-private sectors, and on a scale that has not been previously achieved. This realization underscores the challenge facing the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) as they turn to better managing their blue economies.

Adaptation to Climate Change --- Aquaculture --- Biotechnology --- Desalination --- Ecosystems and Natural Habitats --- Environment --- Oceans --- Ports --- Renewable Energy --- Tourism and Ecotourism --- Transport --- Waste Management --- Water Resources --- Water Resources Management

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This is a background paper to the Pacific Possible report. Technological progress has given rise to increased interest in deep sea minerals. This report takes stock of existing policy, legal and fiscal arrangements supporting DSM decision making and the regulatory and institutional capacities necessary to assure positive outcomes. As such, the report summarizes the knowns and unknowns characterizing the current state of DSM, frames the need to apply the precautionary approach given information uncertainty, and identifies professional and institutional capacity building needs. Given the significant uncertainties and weak institutional capacity in the countries of the Region, the report recommends the precautionary approach to DSM, which among others includes the option of no development if the risks are found to be larger than the benefits. It also recommends that regional regulatory collaboration takes place in a way that is respectful of sovereignty considerations.

Energy --- Environment --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Environmental Economics & Policies --- Environmental Protection --- Natural Resources Management --- Oceans --- Water Resource Management --- Water Resources

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This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions. As a new research domain of Digital Earth, it covers the latest scientific and technical advances, from the acquisition and integration of observational data, ocean spatio-temporal analysis and coastal flood forecasting to frequency modeling and the development of technical platforms. The individual chapters will be of interest to specialists in oceanic and coastal monitoring and management who deal with aspects of data integration, sharing, visualization, and spatio-temporal analysis from a Digital Earth perspective. .

Coasts. --- Coastal Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Oceans --- Sea, The --- Earth sciences. --- Oceanography. --- Natural disasters. --- Computer simulation. --- Geographical information systems. --- Earth Sciences. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Ocean --- Coasts --- Earth sciences --- Data processing. --- Coastlines --- Landforms --- Seashore --- Bodies of water --- Oceanography --- Geology. --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Marine sciences --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Natural history --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Natural calamities --- Disasters