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Coastal Management 2025

Abstract submissions

The abstract submissions process for Coastal Management 2025 has now closed.

Key dates and timeframes for the conference are shown below.

Key dates

  • Full papers due: March 2025
  • Paper reviews undertaken: March and April 2025
  • Full programme released: May 2025

Some of the themes we are looking to cover at the conference are outlined below.

As well as the main presentations from a wide range of specialists from across the coastal management sector, there will also be a number of keynote presentations and Q&A sessions across the two days of the conference.

The full programme is currently being developed and will be released shortly.

  1. Drivers of change – what is the reality we are facing and why is a different approach needed?
    • Technical (natural change)
    • Environment
    • Social pressures, capacity, and the need and justification for change
  2. Review and examples of approaches to change: what progress has been made?
    • Incorporating change
    • Adapting to change
    • Resisting change
  3. What needs to change?
    • Policy: how we can ingrain sustainability and resilience into political decisions
    • Legislation: whether any new laws are needed
    • Barriers and inertia
    • Moving from risk to broader systems thinking
  4. What are the economics of change?
    • Need for alternative economic rationale and new approaches to prioritisation
    • Alternative funding and partnerships
    • Adaptive definition of success and measurement of success (human and natural) beyond the infrastructure(s) protected
  5. Inspiration and aspiration: how do we create a new climate for this?
    • How change is being delivered where it is needed
    • Generating different attitudes
    • Communication and better understanding
    • Innovative technologies

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