Listening to Locals

This transcript of a talk describes what happened when residents from a vulnerable low-lying coastal area worked together with local and national agencies to confront the risks and possibilities of climate change, after first reaching out for advice from overseas experts. During the last two decades, their joint work has led to Europe’s largest open coast realignmentCoast realignment, the establishment of a multi-stakeholderMulti stakeholder climate change partnership and one of the UK’s earliest Integrated Coastal Zone ManagementIntegrated Coastal Zone Management policies.