Offering more than 60 presentations across two days, Coastal Management 2025 isn’t just another conference. It is where breakthrough solutions are shared with a focus on how we can come together to create a climate for change. The carefully curated programme reflects the challenges that coastal engineers encounter every day.
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| 08:00-09:10 | Registration, refreshments and exhibition | ||
| 09:10-11:00 |
Session 1 (Plenary) Welcome from chair: Tara McVey, AECOM Keynote address: Jim Hall, ICE President Review of changing coastal management drivers in the Severn Estuary and their impact in enabling sustainable outcomes. An engaging discussion – to community involvement. Q&A |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Refreshments, networking and exhibition | ||
| 11:30-12:30 | Session 2A: Green infrastructure for climate resilience | Session 2B: Emerging challenges | Session 2C: Delivering wider benefits |
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Nature-based coastal protection – creating a climate robust municipality in Dragør, Denmark. Challenges and opportunities incorporating natural or nature-based solutions with civil works projects in the US.
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Overcoming regulatory and technical challenges in managing legacy wastes at an eroding coastal landfill in Lynemouth Bay, Northumberland, UK. Coastal heritage within local authority flood and coastal erosion risk management – the challenge of conflicting priorities.
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Weston-super-Mare seafront enhancement – 15 years on.
Successfully delivering coastal protection projects during the summer and generating social value – a case study from Cromer and Mundesley. |
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| 12:30-13:00 | Q&A | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch, networking and exhibition | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 3A: Evolving beach management | Session 3B: Engagement and collaboration to deliver outcomes | Session 3C: Deciphering changing hydrodynamics |
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An adaptive coastal flood and erosion risk management strategy – the use of adaptive pathways in Christchurch Bay. A national pilot project in coastal adaptation planning and engagement at Bude, UK.
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An engagement-led approach to improving urban sand dune management using soft system methodology. Stronger shores: collaborating to innovate.
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How sea level rise may change future inshore storm waves in south-west England. Observed trends in nearshore wave characteristics around the English coast. Shingle beach defence assets: standard of protection and wave overtopping. |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Q&A | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Refreshments, networking and exhibition | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Session 4A: Beaches in a changing climate | Session 4B: Delivering multiple benefits | Session 4C: Quick-fire poster presentations |
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Monitoring in decision-making – the impact of Storm Babet in the long-term coastal management context. Embracing uncertainty in the future management of gravel barrier beaches through use of adaptation pathways: a case study at Hurst Spit. Birds, bullets and beach management – delivering coastal protection on the Dungeness peninsula that manages short- to medium-term coastal flood risk and also plans for longer-term coastal evolution. |
Southsea coastal scheme: people, place and defending a historic city.
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Hear quick-fire talks from the poster authors and discover how they are driving innovation and best practice. |
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| 17:00-17:30 | Q&A | ||
| 17:30-18:30 | End of day one – evening activities | ||
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| 08:30-09:30 | Registration, refreshments and exhibition | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Session 5A: Sustainable management for a resilient future | Session 5B: Similar problems, different places | Session 5C: Question time |
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Millport coastal flood protection scheme – the challenges of an island location.
Selection of optimal flood-protection standard for Singapore’s coastline: a literature review. |
Different location, different solution – giving an insight into the similarities and differences of coastal solutions in England. The tides of change – owning the outcomes and delivering for communities at risk on the south coast of England. Lessons learnt from applying the new coastal change adaptation guidance for Scotland at Ballantrae Bay. |
Question time panel: what does adaptation mean for coasts and what future challenges lay ahead for the industry? Session chair: Dan Trewin, Environment Agency Panellists: |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Q&A | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Refreshments, networking and exhibition | ||
| 11:30-12:30 | Session 6A: Applying new approaches | Session 6B: Navigating toward long-term sustainability in a shifting climate | Session 6C: Creating climate-smart societies for tomorrow |
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Planning and permitting hurdles for the Upper Mobile Bay beneficial-use wetland creation site in Alabama. Pilot-testing a living dike in Boundary Bay, Canada.
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Coastal change unshackled from protection.
A new approach to holistic, evidence-based management of flood and coastal risk assets in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. |
Creating a climate for change: an act of balance.
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| 12:30-13:00 | Q&A | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch, networking and exhibition | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 7A: Spotlight on the South West | Session 7B: Sustainable futures | Session 7C: Widening our perspectives on sediment |
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Sustainability of large coastal infrastructure: a case study at Bridgwater Tidal Barrier.
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Embodied carbon reduction in grey coastal engineering solutions.
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Long-term sustainable management of a coastal sediment subcell via nearshore beach systems. Why understanding what is coming down our estuaries is essential and beneficial, and the first steps to achieving this. Resilient coasts: quantifying a circular sediment economy. |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Q&A | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Refreshments, networking and exhibition | ||
| 16:00-17:20 |
Session 8 (Plenary) Infrastructure resilience principles and standards Adaptive planning and adaptation pathways to aid the management of long-term coastal change. Resilient coasts: a new economic approach to attracting funds at the coast. Q&A Closing summary from chair: Tara McVey |
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| 18:30-21:00 | Conference dinner aboard the SS Great Britain(pre-booking required) | ||
Visit to Avonmouth docks
Make the most of your time at the conference by visiting Avonmouth Docks and some of the assets forming part of the Avonmouth Severnside Enterprise Area’s ecology mitigation and flood defence project.
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 09:00 to 13:00.