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Coastal Management 2025

Abstract submissions

Abstract submissions are being sought for the 2025 Coastal Management conference. Abstracts should be submitted by 31 October 2024. Please see below for submission guidelines and timeframes.

Key dates

  • Submission deadline: 31 October 2024
  • Submission reviews: November and December 2024
  • Author notification: January 2025
  • Final papers due: May 2025
  • Conference: 16-18 September 2025

Some of the themes we are looking to cover at the conference are below. However, if you are working on an interesting project outside of these themes, we would still be delighted to have your submission and hear about your fantastic work.

  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

Maximum length: 500 words

Abstract submissions should be made via this platform.

You can refer to these abstract submission guidelines for some best-practice hints and tips. Please include no more than six authors and one proposed presenting author.

The deadline for submissions is 23.59 on 31 October 2024. Abstracts shall be reviewed and considered by the organising committee. Authors will be informed of the outcome in January 2025.

Please note: accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

Speaker tickets: Please note that all presenters at the conference will be required to purchase tickets to attend. We are currently in the process of finalising the ticket pricing but expect speaker early-bird tickets to be approximately £450.00 excluding VAT. Prices are subject to change and we will advise of the final ticket prices in due course.

For any queries regarding your submission please contact: [email protected]