Low-lying coastal areas can be an early casualty to accelerating rates of sea-level rise, especially if processes resulting in land subsidence enhance such rates. Combined with sea-level rise resulting from global ocean volume and mass changes (including melting of ice sheets and glaciers and thermoelastic seawater expansion), coastal subsidence contributes to coastal flooding, wetland loss, saltwater intrusion, and shoreline erosion. While sea-level rise is a global issue and requires a global collaborative response, the goal of this session is to heighten awareness of the problem of natural and anthropogenic coastal subsidence at the local scale, and its relationship to sea-level rise and associated hazards. Recent studies indicate that anthropogenic causes of land subsidence including excessive groundwater extraction from coastal aquifers, peat oxidation due to surface water drainage through land reclamation, urbanization and agricultural use, as well as sediment starvation due to construction of dams and artificial levees have resulted in damage to wetland ecosystems and increased flooding risk. The combination of geological and historical measurements and data from ongoing monitoring techniques is required to understand multiple drivers of coastal land motion and their respective contributions to past, present, and future subsidence. Research on coastal subsidence encompasses multidisciplinary boundaries, requiring measuring and modeling techniques from geology, geodesy, natural hazards and oceanography. This session invites contributions on all aspects of coastal subsidence research including recent advances on measurement techniques from ground-based observations to remote sensing data, numerical models and their predictability for inundation hazards. In particular, efforts towards characterizing human intervention on coastal land motion are welcome.