The increasing success of our series of international symposiums “Living with the Landscape”, which has started with the first conference in the Sinai Peninsula in 2008, followed by the second in the Siwa Oasis 2009, the third in Aswan 2010, the fourth in Dahab 2020, and the fifth in Luxor 2022, has been the driving force behind our will to continue this year, despite great financial and administrative obstacles, in what has become our yearly environmental tradition. We, thus, as usual, continue to work in order to offer you the same opportunities for academic cooperation and cross-national collaborations among academics from all corners of the globe, for discussions of people’s ways of adaptation with their natural environment. We chose a magical site on the Red Sea coast to be a suitable venue for us to meet, exchange our research, and strengthen the relationship of fellowship and friendship between us.

Most of the coastal zones in the contemporary world suffer from many environmental challenges and threats, they arise from both natural factors and human activities, for example the risk of marine erosion and flooding poses a threat to present and future socio-economic activities. In this case risk can be defined as the probability of occurrence of an extreme event (storms, tsunamis) leading to erosion and flooding multiplied by the (socio) economic damage caused by the storm event, under conditions of climate change. The largest structural changes in hydrodynamic conditions and sediment supply are generally due to human interventions.