Summer School on Human-Earth System Interactions in Estuaries and Coasts July 28-29, 2021 State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research East China Normal University How to join it? Summer School on Human-Earth System Interactions in Estuaries and Coasts July 28-29, 2021 Zoom Meeting Room: 82350981917 Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82350981917 Password: 403880 组委会联系方式（国内）: Contacts (International affairs) : Contact: Mrs Li Tan 联系人：金老师 021-54836042 Tel: 021-54836491 电话： [email protected] Email: [email protected] 邮箱： 技术支持： Technical support： Contact: Mr. Yuan 联系人：袁老师 13764476296 Tel: 13764476296 电话： [email protected] Email: [email protected] 邮箱： Programme Day 1: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 Time(UTC+0) Time(UTC+8) Theme: Building Coastal Resilience Moderator: Professor Zhong Peng Delta response to rapid sediment decline 7:00-7:55 15:00-15:55 Qing He (East China Normal University) Building resilient coastal communities in the face of Covid-19 8:00-8:55 16:00-16:55 and rising sea level Bruce C. Glavovic (Massey University, New Zealand) 9:00-10:00 17:00-18:00 Coffee break Moderator: Dr. Leicheng Guo Coastal protection in the Netherlands and sediment management in the Dutch coastal system 10:00-10:55 18:00-18:55 Zheng Bing Wang (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Coastal resilience as a management concept and how 11:00-11:55 19:00-19:55 managed realignment can contribute Ian Townend (University of Southhampton, UK) 12:00-12:30 20:00-20:30 Coffee break Moderator: Professor Zhixuan Feng Challenges of most Asian deltas are facing: natural and 12:30-13:25 20:30-21:25 anthropogenic impacts Paul Liu (North Carolina State University, USA) Improving coastal resilience with grey-green coastal defence 13:30-14:25 21:30-22:25 infrastructure Han Winterwerp (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) 2 Summer School on Human-Earth System Interactions in Estuaries and Coasts Day 2: Thursday, July 29, 2021 Time(UTC+0) Time(UTC+8) Theme: Coastal Ecosystem Science Moderator: Professor Hui Wu Life cycle of marine plastic and microplastics and solution 7:00-7:55 15:00-15:55 Daoji Li (East China Normal University) River-estuary-coastal zone: a coherent dynamic system 8:00-8:55 16:00-16:55 H.J. de Vriend (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) 9:00-10:00 17:00-18:00 Coffee break Moderator: Professor Ning Zhao Mekong deltaic coastal and estuarine mangrove related 10:00-10:55 18:00-18:55 processes Marcel Stive (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Introduction to social-environmental frameworks in the coastal 11:00-11:55 19:00-19:55 zone Alice Newton (University of Algarve, Portugal) 12:00-12:30 20:00-20:30 Coffee break Moderator: Professor Qiqing Chen Coastal wetland loss consequences and challenges for 12:30-13:25 20:30-21:25 restoration Xiuzhen Li (East China Normal University) Tracing episodic events in estuaries and coasts using 13:30-14:25 21:30-22:25 atmospherically-delivered radionuclide tracers Mark Baskaran (Wayne State University, USA) Summer School on Human-Earth System Interactions 3 in Estuaries and Coasts Speakers Prof. Qing He ( East China Normal University) Title: Delta response to rapid sediment decline Abstract: Many estuaries in the world are suffering from sediment decline, sinking deltas and wetland loss due to anthropogenic effects, potentially leading to regime shifts. In recent 50 years. The Yangtze Estuary has mainly experienced sediment decline and local engineering works. The change in hydrodynamics is pronounced in changes in tidal damping and flow structures. Tidal damping was weakened in the South Branch mainly due to reduced sediment supply whereas it was enhanced in the mouth zone mainly caused by the local engineering works. Lateral flow structures were also modified in the mouth zone due to the deepening and narrowing. Riverine sediment discharges initially decreased gradually since the mid-1980s but accelerated to the present-day amount of ~70% since 2003. Subsequently, the decrease in the SSC occurred shortly after the accelerated sediment decline in the South Branch but until ~2015 in the mouth zone. The re- gime shifts in the morphology of the Yangtze Estuary include the deepening and narrowing in the main channels, a shift from accretion to erosion in the subaqueous delta, and a shift from fast to slower accretion and even erosion in the tidal flats. Moreover, the regime shifts indicate time lags, particularly in the mouth zone where the morphological response time lag to sediment decline is 20-30 years. Biography: Professor Qing HE is an expert on flow-sediment dynamics and morpho-dynamics in estuaries and coasts. She was the Principal Investigator of multiple national and international projects, and largely contributed to the understanding of morpho-dynamics in the Yangtze River Estuary. She developed a high-resolution fluid-sediment observation system in the near-bed boundary layer in navigational channels, and identified the transformation of sediment sources and sinks and the associated controlling mechanism in the Yangtze River Estuary. Her research achievements also consist of revealing the mechanism of physical-biological process interaction of fine sediment flocculation, and discovering the delayed response of morphological evolution in Yangtze River Estuary to the reduction of sediments in the watershed. Professor He published more than 150 research papers and was awarded with the silver prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Award, and the first prize of Science and Technology Award of China Water Transportation Construction As- sociation. Professor He is currently the director of State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research in China, and is also member of the International Fine Sediment Science Steering Committee, and deputy president of the estuary committee of the Chinese Water Resources Society. 4 Summer School on Human-Earth System Interactions in Estuaries and Coasts Prof. Bruce Glavovic (Massey University, New Zealand) Title: Building resilient coastal communities in the face of Covid-19 and rising sea level Abstract: Covid-19 has sent shockwaves around the world, at a time when the existential threat posed by climate change, and global change more broadly, is beginning to be recognised by society. Coastal cities and settlements are on the frontline of the struggle to chart pathways towards just, climate resilient and sustainable development. What are the enabling conditions to catalyse such transformational change? This presentation outlines current sea-level rise projections and the associate climate impacts and risks facing coastal communities in a Covid-19 world. Enabling conditions for trans- formational change are identified. Experience and diverse streams of critical scholarship demonstrate that translating ‘good intentions’ into practical reality is rooted in ethical and political imperatives that are deeply contested. They are contingent on local circumstances and driving forces in the political economy. Institutionalising promising pathways takes place in the face of deep complexity, uncertainty, turbulence and contestation. To compound matters further, the window of time to undertake necessary radical change is closing fast. Action or inaction by coastal nations, and cities and settlements by the sea, over the next decade will determine future prospects for human and planetary well-being. Biography: Bruce has degrees in economics and agricultural economics, environmental science, and urban and environmental planning. He has worked in academia, environmental consulting and Government, chiefly in New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA. Bruce’s research centres on how governance shapes social choices in the Anthropocene. His focus is on coastal communities, cities and settlements, and bridging the science-policy-practice nexus in the face of global change. He explores the roles of environmental planning, reflexivity and deliberation, and conflict transformation and citizen engage- ment, in confronting the sustainable development problématique. He has published over 100 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers, authored over 100 consulting reports and technical publications, and co-edited five books. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Ocean & Coastal Management, Senior Editor for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natu- ral Hazard Science, and on several other Editorial Boards. He was Coordinating Lead Author of the sea-level rise chap- ter in the IPCC’s 2019 Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. He is a Lead Author of the Climate Resilient Development Pathways chapter, and Cross-Chapter Paper Lead on Cities and Settlements by the Sea, in the IPCC’s Working Group II contribution to AR6. He led the team that designed and facilitated South Africa’s coastal policy formulation process that culminated in the Government’s White Paper for Sustainable Coastal Development in 2000 and the world’s first Integrated Coastal Man- agement Act. Summer School on Human-Earth System Interactions 5 in Estuaries and Coasts Speakers Prof. Zheng Bing Wang ( Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Title: Coastal protection in the Netherlands and sediment management in the Dutch coastal system Abstract: The Netherlands is a low-lying country and has a long tradition of coastal protection against flooding. In the last century a series of large engineering works raised the flood protection standard in the Netherlands to the highest in the world, but these “hard” engineering works also caused