Integrated coastal zone management in the context of COVID-19

Gerardo M E Perillo; Camilo M Botero; Celene B Milanes; Carla I Elliff; Omar Cervantes; Seweryn Zielinski; Briana Bombana; Bruce C Glavovic

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105687

Integrated coastal zone management in the context of COVID-19

Ocean Coast Manag. 2021 Sep 1:210:105687. doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105687. Epub 2021 May 14.

Authors

Gerardo M E Perillo^{1

2

3}, Camilo M Botero^{1

4}, Celene B Milanes^{1

5}, Carla I Elliff^{1

6}, Omar Cervantes^{1

7}, Seweryn Zielinski^{1

8}, Briana Bombana^{1

9}, Bruce C Glavovic¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Member of the Ibero-American Beach Management and Certification Network - PROPLAYAS, Colombia.
² Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía, Camino a la Carrindanga km 7, B8000FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
³ Departamento de Geología, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Av Alem 1253, 2 Piso of 202, B8000CTX, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ School of Law, Sergio Arboleda University, Santa Marta, Colombia.
⁵ Civil and Environmental Department, Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla, Colombia.
⁶ Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
⁷ Faculty of Marine Sciences, University of Colima, Manzanillo, Mexico.
⁸ Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sejong University, 209 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, 05006, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁹ Grup de Recerca SGR-Interfase, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Carrer de la Fortuna s/n, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
¹⁰ School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.

Abstract

With the increasing need for and emergence of research on ocean and coastal issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ocean & Coastal Management journal presents this Special Issue with relevant articles within the scope of Coastal Management in times of COVID-19. This Special Issue received 43 tentative abstracts, 29 manuscripts were submitted, and finally, 12 articles were accepted. We provide a wide panorama of those twelve articles that integrate the special issue, covering a diverse range of topics regarding coastal management in the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven papers are studies that discuss environmental and social problems during this time in coastal zones, while the other five explore the use of technology to face COVID-19 on beaches. These twelve articles give some insights to improve coastal management, focused on tourist beaches, natural disasters, and fisheries. In sum, this special issue offers an organized compendium of high-level articles, as a contribution to evolve towards the better ocean and coastal management within the rapid emerging of publications about COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Integrated coastal zone management.