The University of Liverpool is part of a new £2 million national network to generate knowledge, action and resilience for UK coastal communities and seas.
The COAST-R Network is part funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and DEFRA under their Resilient Coastal Communities and Seas programme and is part of a £14.8m investment in place-based research projects aiming to enhance resilience, wellbeing and sustainability across the UK.
The COAST-R Network involves academic teams from the Universities of Hull, Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Southampton and Aberystwyth University, as well as coastal and marine partners and communities across all four UK nations.
Together, they will work to generate and share learning across sectors and disciplines to build UK coastal and marine resilience.
Professor Neil Macdonald, Department of Geography and Planning is the project lead at University of Liverpool alongside colleagues Professor Andrew Plater and Dr Charlotte Lyddon.
He said: "UK coasts face many of our most significant resilience challenges, with coastal and estuarine communities living with social and health inequalities, rising sea levels, and coastal erosion, to name but a few challenges. Yet conventional models of coastal management sometimes fail to capture and understand local needs, understanding and experiences of coastal change.
"COAST-R will work collaboratively across sectors and build skills, knowledge and collaboration to ensure those most impacted by climate change have a key voice in the decision-making process around coastal resilience."
The COAST-R Network has five key objectives:
