Working with nature: challenges of working in a changing climate on coasts and estuaries
4th November 2025 at 1pm
Free online, open to all, registration required
Join the RGS’s free online panel to discuss the challenges of working with nature on coastal and estuaries. As the number of nature based solutions and ecological engineering are growing, how well do they work in practice in standing up to extreme weather and climate change?
This panel discusses a range of views from across the coastal and estuarine sector to examine the challenges and best practice. We’ll examine nature based solutions and ecological engineering from a range of angles, including their viability in a changing climate, key financials challenges and lessons learnt in implications learning from UK examples and elsewhere.
From leaders working in different sectors, we’ll question how well nature based solutions and ecological engineering could fare physical, governance, engineering, financial and economic perspectives.
The speakers are:
- Professor Pierre Failler, Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business and Law and Director of the Centre for Blue Governance, University of Portsmouth.
- Dr Helen Jay, Senior National Consultant – Coast, National Trust.
- Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble, Biodiversity Net Gain Strategic Lead, Southern Water., Biodiversity Net Gain Strategic Lead, Southern Water.
- Lucy Sheffield, Team Leader / Subject Matter Expert – Environmental Improvements & Habitat Restoration, Coastal Partners.
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