Dear Colleague,
We would appreciate if you could kindly include conference announcement in your website
and/or disseminate the event information to your contacts. Below is the brief information about
the MEDCOAST 15 Conference.
Thank you!
MEDCOAST 15 Conference Secretariat
MEDCOAST 15, 06-10 Oct 2015, Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria
The twelfth event of the MEDCOAST's biennial international conference series on the
Mediterranean Coastal Environment (MEDCOAST 15) will take place at the premises of the ultraall-inclusive Grifid Bolero Hotel at Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria during 06-10 October 2015. The
web page of the conference is at the address (www.conference.medcoast.net). The deadline for
online abstract submission will expire on 15 May 2015.
Since the first conference in 1993, the past eleven events of the MEDCOAST conference series
have brought together researchers, planners, designers, managers, policy makers, national and local
administrators, developers and NGOs from a wide spectrum of nationalities, who have interest in
coastal and marine science, conservation, policy and management in general and in the
Mediterranean, Black and Caspian seas in particular.
All papers presented (oral or poster) in the MEDCOAST conferences are peer-reviewed and printed
in the proceedings which are covered by the major conference proceedings indexing systems such
as the ISI Thomson, Scopus and Compendex. Authors of the selected papers from the proceedings
are invited for thematic special issues of the leading coastal and marine journals.
All interested people are invited to upload on-line their abstract(s) by 15 May, following the
instructions provided at the conference web page and to be with us at Golden Sands, Varna in
October for a rewarding and enjoyable international gathering.
Important dates:
 Online abstract submission deadline :
 Notification of accepted abstracts :
 Deadline for proposing special sessions :
 Full manuscript submission deadline :
15 May 2015
31 May 2015
15 July 2015
30 July 2015
TOPICS OF MEDCOAST 15
A. Coastal systems, Conservation issues
Geography, geology, geomorphology, sedimentology;
Coastal oceanography;
Coastal and marine ecosystems, biology and ecology;
Marine mammals, endangered species;
Conservation issues, biodiversity, exotic & invasive species;
Coastal ecosystems management;
Rehabilitation of damaged ecosystems;
Coastal and marine protected areas;
Coastal landscapes;
B. Integrated Coastal Management (ICM)
Theoretical framework and case reports;
Coastal management tools and instruments, databases;
Coastal and marine policy, science and policy integration;
Coastal governance, institutional arrangements;
International efforts and programs in ICM;
Legal, economic and social issues;
Environmental / ecological economics;
Education, public involvement & NGO role, media role;
Evaluation of ICM impacts, coastal management indicators;
Demonstration pilot projects;
C. Coastal management issues
Coastal and submarine archaeology, management of ancient sites, monuments and ship wrecks;
Coastal wetlands, dunes, estuaries, deltas and lagoons;
Beaches and their management;
Coastal water resources and watershed management;
Water quality management, water and sediment pollution, land based sources, hazardous wastes,
algal blooms, bio- indicators of pollution and monitoring, pollution control;
Marine litter, solid wastes management;
Trans-boundary pollution issues, legal context;
Environmental impacts, coastal degradation, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA),
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA);
Disaster prevention, mitigation and management;
Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies;
D. Sustainable development of coastal/marine areas
Sustainable development concerns, indicators, sustainable development of coastal and marine
resources;
Blue economy issues, Integrated Marine Policy (IMP), coastal and maritime spatial planning
(CMSP);
Urban development issues, waterfront renovation;
Coastal tourism planning and management, ecotourism, recreation, marine tourism;
Living resources, fisheries, mariculture;
Marine transportation issues, oil transport;
Marine energy issues;
Sitting of major industrial facilities;
E. Coastal engineering, Modelling, Decision support systems, Data management
Coastal, environmental and ecosystem modelling;
Coastal hydrodynamics;
Coastal sediment transport and erosion;
Coastal processes and erosion, shoreline management;
Coastal and ecocoastal engineering;
Water level changes, sea level rise and consequences;
Coastal and marine monitoring, databases, SDI;
Use of remote sensing technology and geographic information systems in coastal management.
Mediterranean Coastal Foundation (Akdeniz Kıyı Vakfı)
Atatürk Mah. Sulungur Cad. No: 43,Dalyan 48840, Mugla Turkey
Tel: +90 252 2844450 Fax: + 90 252 2844405
medcoast2015@medcoast.net
medcoast@medcoast.net
http://www.medcoast.net/
http://conference.medcoast.net/