Call for abstracts - ASLO-SIL 2026 Joint Meeting (12-16 May 2026) Montreal
Agustin Sanchez-Arcilla
12-16 May 2026 * Montreal, Quebec, CA
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract to our session “SS006 Restoring river-coast landscapes to develop natural resilience” before the deadline next 25th November 2025.
Submit your abstract here: https://www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/abstract-preparation-guide/
The abstract submission deadline is Midnight, Central Standard Time (USA) (11:59 pm) on 25 November 2025 (05:59 Greenwich Mean Time)
More information below:
SS006 Restoring river-coast landscapes to develop natural resiliencePossible Formats: Standard Oral, Poster
Agustin Sanchez-Arcilla, Maritime Engineering
Laboratory, Catalonia University of Technology UPC
Barcelona-Tech (agustin...@upc.edu)
Manel Grifoll, Maritime Engineering Laboratory,
Catalonia University of Technology UPC Barcelona-Tech
(manel....@upc.edu)
Joanna Staneva, HEREON (joanna....@hereon.de)
Adrian Stanica, GeoEcoMar (asta...@geoecomar.ro)
Coastal zones, including lower river courses are experiencing progressive pressures and increasing risks, projected to accelerate under climate change. Rethinking river-coast connectivity and restoring the buffering role of natural dynamics can enhance natural coastal resilience, decreasing coastal erosion and flooding risks, improving water quality, biodiversity and biological productivity. This goes associated to an increase in coastal blue carbon and an enhanced delivery of other ecosystem services, which suppose a decarbonised coastal protection together with a more sustainable resilience for the river-coast continuum. The proposed session aims to demonstrate how new advances in techniques (e.g., application of early warning and climatic warning systems), financing (e.g., new business models to upscale habitat restoration) and governance (e.g., integrated management of scarce freshwater and sediment resources across river-coast domains) can enhance the natural resilience of these systems under climate change. Presentations on river-coast connectivity and dynamics, spanning from controlled river floods to enhanced coastal roughness by contracted wetlands are welcome. The session also wants to tackle the growing knowledge on river-coast synergies and trade-offs that come from monitoring, simulations and hydraulic laboratory tests. These ongoing results are being discussed within coastal restoration platforms, which get together relevant stakeholders to prepare restoration contracts for river-coast systems. These elements, to be discussed in the proposed session, should serve to demonstrate the shared benefits from nature-based approaches under a variety of climates and geographies. The session, starting from three ongoing European research projects (REST-COAST, COAST-SCAPES, FOCCUS and the research infrastructure DANUBIUS), will promote the combination of observations, simulations and multidimensional analyses from any interested partner, to demonstrate how adaptation can contribute to risk reduction and resilience enhancement, while contributing to climate mitigation by a reduction of the carbon footprint and an increase of coastal blue carbon.
Keywords: River-Coast Continuum, Active and Passive Restoration, Natural Resilience, Landscape Rethinking, Restoration Platforms