Coastal areas are prone to a multitude of pressures, including population increase, land degradation, sea level rise, and climate-related weather hazards. While responses such as protect, accommodation, and retreat are widely discussed as adaptation options, the relevance of advance (i.e., land reclamation), including its potentials and limitations, is less understood. Land reclamation is common practice in coastal cities and settlements worldwide, offering options to adapt to sea level rise (e.g., in small islands). However, it is a highly disruptive intervention in the coastal system, due to potential trade-offs with conservation, biodiversity impacts, and equity issues. The assessment of land reclamation as a climate adaptation option requires a better understanding of its (positive or negative) impacts on exposure, vulnerability, and well-being of coastal communities, its political and economic drivers, and the extent to which maladaptive outcomes of land reclamation can be prevented. In this session, we invite theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies to better understand the interaction between land reclamation and past, current, and future coastal climate risks. We explicitly welcome local and regional case studies, particularly on small islands and coastal cities, as well as global perspectives.