Recent decades have witnessed a steady increase in efforts from a range of actors to facilitate and support meaningful and effective engagement with coastal communities and stakeholders. Indeed, this move towards improved participatory approaches are increasingly framed as being integral to successful and sustainable management of coastal resources and spaces, including in the context of climate adaptation The effectiveness of the processes, structures and frameworks underpinning coastal community engagement has always been subject to external and internal drivers; however, the global threat posed by COVID-19 presented, and continues to present, an unexpected shift in approach, and the need for rapid adaptation by those of us working within these spheres. Using the Coastal Communities Adapting Together (CCAT) project as a case study, we explore how engagement with coastal communities and stakeholders in the project areas of Fingal, Ireland, and Pembrokeshire, Wales, has been impacted and forced to adapt as a result of COVID-19. Through a qualitative data collection process, we explore how project teams across different scales have rapidly adapted their models of community and stakeholder engagement, identify successes and failures, and explore challenges that have been faced. Finally, we consider if the legacy of COVID-19 has provided an opportunity for coastal community engagement approaches being used across the globe to become more diverse, adapting to new technologies and increasing accessibility and effectiveness. Insights identified as fundamental to successful adaptation and enhancing resilience include: a rapid response to change, adoption of a diversity of techniques, broadened participation and supported social learning and knowledge exchange.

最近几十年来，各种行为者为促进和支持与沿海社区和利益相关者进行有意义和有效的参与而付出的努力不断增加。实际上，越来越多地将这种改进参与性方法的举措视为对沿海资源和空间进行成功和可持续管理的必要条件，包括在气候适应的背景下。沿海社区参与的过程，结构和框架的有效性一直受到制约。外部和内部驱动程序；然而，COVID-19构成的全球威胁提出并继续存在，方法的出乎意料的变化，以及我们在这些领域工作的人们需要迅速适应。以沿海社区共同适应（CCAT）项目为例，我们探讨了由于COVID-19而与爱尔兰的Fingal和威尔士的Pembrokeshire项目区域中的沿海社区和利益相关者的接触如何受到影响并被迫适应。通过定性的数据收集过程，我们探索了不同规模的项目团队如何快速调整其社区和利益相关者参与的模型，确定成功和失败的原因，并探索所面临的挑战。最后，我们考虑一下COVID-19的遗产是否为在全球范围内使用的沿海社区参与方法提供了机会，使其变得更加多样化，适应新技术并增加了可及性和有效性。被认为是成功适应和增强适应力的基础的见解包括：对变化的快速响应，采用多种技术，