A worldwide increase in flooding due to climate change and population growth in exposed
areas is expected, especially in coastal areas; therefore, nature-based solutions (NBS) for …

Coastal erosion in 45 sandy beaches covering nearly 2000 km along the tectonically active
Chilean coast is assessed during the last four decades. The historical analysis is based on …

The world is facing a major pulse of ecological and social changes that may favor the risk of
zoonotic outbreaks. Such risk facilitation may occur through the modification of the host's …

Urbanization and urban sprawl in Latin America has led to the social and environmental
challenges such as loss and fragmentation of wetland areas, negatively impacting their …

In the second half of the twentieth century, after the Second World War, a considerable
migration from inland to coastal areas was observed in many territories, especially in the …

City-regions in sensitive environmental spaces such as globally recognized biodiversity
hotspots face the challenge of adopting land use planning strategies that facilitate the …

Urbanization needs to conceptualize land use policy beyond the city boundaries. It might be
explained by exploring complex and interconnected interdependencies in regional key …

The rapid and uncontrolled urbanization in develo** countries creates new challenges for
the government, as is the case with mega-urbanization in the Joglosemar Urban Region of …

This study reviews the degree to which land-use planning addresses climate change
adaptation in Chilean Low Elevated Coastal Zones (LECZ). We first select 12 of the country's …

Along the Viña del Mar-Concón coastal strip 11,894 litter items were collected, and grouped
into 48 different categories (11 litter typologies). The average litter abundance was 0.25 …