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.
- 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
- Review and examples of approaches to change: what progress has been made?
- Incorporating change
- Adapting to change
- Resisting change
- 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
- 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
- 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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