In the ICCOAST and LIRISK projects, the Environmental Flow Dynamics Group has developed probabilistic tools for sustainable coastal management with legal certainty.
The balance of coastal areas, spaces of great environmental and scenic value, is seriously compromised by industrial expansion and sun and beach tourism, which have driven intensive occupation of the coastline. This pressure, in addition to generating high environmental and economic costs, has increased the vulnerability of the population to natural disasters, as the coastline acts as a natural barrier against extreme phenomena such as storms, river floods, and tsunamis. In the coming decades, climate change will pose an additional challenge to preserving these areas and the unique ecosystems they harbor. In this context, the Environmental Flow Dynamics Group (GDFA) at the University of Granada has led the ICCOAST project, which aims to predict the advance of erosion and the occurrence of flooding on the Andalusian coast under a climate scenario that forecasts high emissions until the end of the 21st century.