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- Storm Surge Forecasting in the Mediterranean: Advances in GEV Extreme-Value Modelling
- Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Erosion: Seagrass Meadows as Living Breakwaters
- Sea-Level Rise Projections for Greek Coastlines: What IPCC AR6 Means Locally
- Deploying Real-Time Coastal Monitoring: From ERA5 Reanalysis to Operational Nowcasting
- Coastal Sediment Transport Modelling: Bridging Theory and Practice with the CERC and Kamphuis Formulations
- Climate Hazard Assessment for Coastal Infrastructure: A Multi-Hazard Compound-Event Framework
- Sand Motor (Zandmotor): Mega-Nourishment Reshaping the Dutch Coast
- Hondsbossche Dunes: Converting a Weak Sea Dike into a Living Landscape
- Oitylo Bay, Mani Peninsula: Erosion Analysis and Artificial Reefs Protection Design
- Ebro Delta Managed Realignment: Restoring Sediment Delivery in Spain's Largest Delta
- Lido di Dante: Hybrid Coastal Protection Boosting Tourism on the Adriatic
- Medmerry Managed Retreat: Europe's Largest Coastal Realignment Scheme
- Coastal Protection Pilot Project at Kalamaki Beach, Western Achaea: A Contemporary Greek Example of Low-Impact Coastal Protection within the LIFE-IP AdaptInGR Framework
- Heraklion North Coast, Crete: High-Energy Wave Impact on a Carbonate Shelf
- Axios Delta, Thermaikos Gulf: Extreme Retreat on Greece's Flattest Deltaic Coast
- Porto Katsiki, Lefkada: High-Energy Ionian Storms vs. a Cliff-Backed Pocket Beach
- Faliraki, Rhodes: Tourism-Pressured Pocket Beach Under SE Aegean Storm Exposure
- Storm Surge Modelling Methodology: From ERA5 Reanalysis to Extreme-Value Statistics
- Wave Climate Analysis: Multi-Decadal ERA5 Statistics and Derived Coastal Parameters
- Sediment Transport Modelling: CERC Volumetric Method and Cross-Shore Equilibrium
- Coastal Defence Structure Design: Hudson's Stability, EurOtop Overtopping, and Life-Cycle Costing
- Nature-Based Solutions Assessment: A Multi-Criteria Framework for Coastal Managers
- Posidonia oceanica Habitat Health Assessment: Shoot Density Models and the PREI Index
- Sea Level Rise Projections: IPCC AR6 Pathways with Local Mediterranean Adjustments
- Protected Areas & Biodiversity: Integrating Natura 2000 with IUCN Red List Assessments
- Scenario Modelling: Coupling IPCC Projections with Bruun Rule and Adaptation Costing
- Bathymetric Profiling: Physics-Based Seabed Models with EMODnet and GEBCO Validation
- Coastal Slope Stability: Bishop Method with Mohr–Coulomb Failure Analysis
- Mediterranean Coastal Water Quality: Seasonal Climatology from EMODnet and CMEMS
- Surface Current Estimation: Combining Ekman Transport with Tidal Constituents
- European Climate Risk Assessment: The EUCRA Framework Applied to Coastal Zones
- Why Not Hard Coastal Structures? Evidence Against Seawalls, Groynes, and Breakwaters
- EU Policy Framework for Coastal Resilience: From ICZM to the 2021 Adaptation Strategy
- International Regulatory Texts on Coastal Erosion: From the European Code of Conduct to the ICZM Protocol
- Soft Coastal Protection and Shoreline Restoration: The Submerged Artificial Reefs Approach
- Climate Change and Coastal Adaptation in the Mediterranean: Risks, Projections, and Nature-Based Responses
- Seasonal Morphodynamic Hazard Trajectories on a Gravel-Dominated Pocket Beach: A Rhodes (Greece) Case Study Using Hybrid Empirical-Physics Coastal Analytics
- Long-Horizon Monthly Sediment Budget Hindcast and Extreme-Event Sensitivity at Kalamaki (Achaia, Greece): A Multi-Formulation Coastal Engineering Case Study