xxiii, 351 p.; 23 cm.

ISBN 978-0-12-802748-6.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Introduction -- Facing the challenges -- Paradigm shifts, coastal zones, and adaptation to fast-paced change: moving toward transdisciplinary community-centered approaches -- Transfer of knowledge and mutual learning on the canadian atlantic coast -- Coastal population and land use changes in Europe: challenges for a sustainable future -- Human frontiers: an act of smuggling across social borders -- Developing solutions: challenges for communities in the context of global change -- Sustainable mariculture at high latitudes -- Coastal governance solutions development in Latvia: collaboration communication and indicator systems -- Geoengineering coastlines? From accidental to intentional -- Remote sensing solutions to monitor biotic and abiotic dynamics in coastal ecosystems -- Managing adaptation to changing climate in coastal zones -- Sustainability of artificial coasts: the Barcelona coast case -- Protected shores contaminated with plastic: from knowledge to action -- Local management of common-pool resources -- Challenges to sustainable development along peruvian coastal zones -- Solutions for sustainable coastal lagoon management: from conflict to the implementation of a consensual decision tree for artificial opening -- Challenges to evaluating coastal management in the twenty-first century: lessons from the Lofoten Archipelago -- Motivation for the viability of the lobster fishery: case study of the Acadian coast of New Brunswick -- Lobster fisheries in Atlantic Canada in the face of climate and environmental changes: can we talk about sustainability of these coastal communities? -- Universities as solutions to twenty-first century coastal challenges: lessons from Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar University -- Engaging local communities for climate change adaptation: a case study in Quebec, Canada -- Conclusion.