**Meet the editors**

Dr. Yuanzhi Zhang is a research fellow and professor of Urban Remote Sensing and Coastal Zone Environments at Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Nanjing Information University of Science and Technology in China. Dr. Zhang received Doctor of Science in Technology degree at Helsinki University of Technology (now known as Aalto University) in Finland. Dr. Zhang is

the author and coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 10 books or book chapters. He received the First-Rank Award of the Guangdong Provincial Prize of Science and Technology, China, in 2013, and the Second-Rank Award, Actions for Raising Critical Awareness (ARCA) Prize at the International Symposium "Environment 2010: Situation and Perspectives for the European Union," Porto, Portugal, in 2003.

Dr. Yijun Hou is currently a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), chief professor of Marine Sciences at the University of CAS, and leader of the National Key Research and Development Program of China. He was the deputy director of the IOCAS, expert member of National Disaster Prevention and Disaster Reduction, and

was awarded the State Council Special Allowance in 1993. He has finished more than 40 national projects and published more than 200 articles. He was granted a Special Contribution for Ocean Technology of National 863 Project and got the awards for Science and Technology Progress, Marine Science and Technology Innovation Achievements of the State Oceanic Administration and Ocean Engineering Science and Technology.

Dr. Xiaomei Yang is a professor at State Key Lab of Resources and Environmental Information System (LREIS), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research. Dr. Yang has long been engaged in the research and development of remote sensing image geounderstanding and analysis, multi-sources information integration and remote sensing information intelligent

extraction. In particular, the comprehensive application of GIS and remote sensing technology in coastal zone research has made many achievements. She has finished more than 10 China National projects and published more than 80 papers in domestic and international journals, as well as six academic monographs co-authored in "Coastal Zone Remote Sensing Technology and Case Studies" and "Remote Sensing Image Geo-Science Understanding and Analysis".

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Coastal Infrastructure 3**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Introduction to Sea Level Rise and**

Chapter 2 **Constructing Local Sea Level Rise Scenarios for Assessing**

Chapter 3 **Analysis of Dynamic Effects on the Brazilian**

Yuanzhi Zhang, Kapo Wong, Yijun Hou and Xiaomei Yang

**Possible Impacts and Adaptation Needs: Insights from Coasts**

Luciana M. Da Silva, Sílvio R.C. De Freitas and Regiane Dalazoana

Hatice Ayatac, Fatma Aycim Turer Baskaya, Eren Kurkcuoglu, Ozge

Chapter 4 **Alterations within the Coastal Urban Environments: Case of the**

Chapter 5 **Coastal Wetland Vegetation in Response to Global Warming**

**Coastal Squares of Istanbul Megacity 41**

Chao Zhou, Kapo Wong and Jianhua Zhao

Dhanya Praveen, Andimuthu Ramachandran and Kandasami

**Section 1 Introduction 1**

**Section 2 Sea Level Rise 7**

**of India 9**

Palanivelu

**Vertical Datum 21**

**Section 3 Coastal Urban Environments 39**

Celik and Sinem Becerik

**and Climate Change 61**

**Section 4 Coastal Vegetations 59**
