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A changing climate in coastal Australia:
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  • What is
    climate change?
  • Assess risks
    and impacts
  • Understand
    adaptation
  • Undertake
    adaptation
  • Connect with the
    adaptation community

Past and present climate

  • Importance of climate
  • Australia's current climate
  • Recent climate change
  • Long-term climate change

Present-day climate data

  • Present-day climate data sources
  • Understanding climate trends
  • Understanding climate risks
  • CoastAdapt datasets: present-day

Future climate

  • Causes of climate change
  • Global climate change
  • Climate change in Australia
  • Unexpected/abrupt climate change

Future climate data

  • Understanding climate scenarios
  • Accessing climate scenarios
  • Using climate scenarios
  • Communicating global climate scenarios
  • CoastAdapt datasets: future

Coastal processes

  • Coast and climate dynamics
  • PDF icon Estuaries and climate change
  • PDF icon Waves, water levels and climate change
  • Data sources on inundation and erosion
  • Sediment compartments and coastal management

Understanding the impacts

  • Overview of impacts
  • Ocean acidification
  • Cyclones and East Coast Lows
  • Impacts by sector
  • PDF icon Coastal groundwater

Risk assessment

  • Local-scale risk assessment
  • Guidance on risk assessment
    • PDF icon First-pass
      risk screening
    • PDF icon Second-pass
      risk assessment
    • PDF icon Third-pass
      risk assessment
  • Rules of thumb
  • Risk assessment templates
  • Modelling tools for risk assessment
  • Data for risk assessment
  • PDF icon Quick guide to hazard mapping

Why adapt?

  • What is adaptation?
  • Importance of adaptation

Enablers and barriers

  • Role of decision makers
  • Barriers to adaptation
  • Working with consultants

Government and legislation

  • Reducing legal risk
  • Jurisdictional differences
  • State-specific information

Approaches to adaptation

  • Pathways approach
  • Transformation

Adaptation options

  • Adaptation options
    • PDF icon Planning
    • PDF icon Engineering
    • PDF icon Environmental
    • PDF icon Social, community and educational

Coastal Climate Adaptation Decision Support

  • Using C-CADS
  • Step 1: The challenge
  • Step 2: Determine vulnerability
  • Step 3: Identify options
  • Step 4: Prepare a plan
  • Step 5: Take action
  • Step 6: Monitor and evaluate

Taking action

  • How to develop a business case
  • What is the least I can do?
  • What if I do nothing?
  • Getting organisational buy-in
  • Review of adaptation support tools
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Indicators for M&E

Economics of adaptation

  • Financing adaptation
  • Role of insurance
  • Valuation

Engagement

  • CoastExchange: the CoastAdapt Online Forum
  • Building community support
  • How to engage the community
  • Partnerships

Case studies

Case studies in CoastAdapt are organised under 13 categories to help you find something to match your interests. There are brief snapshots, longer full case studies and engaging videos.
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CoastExchange

CoastExchange logoCoastExchange was CoastAdapt's online forum in which users could interact with their peers to share ideas, approaches, opportunities, and more. CoastExchange was operational from April 2016 through to June 2017.
Other adaptation forums

Ask an Expert

Every month CoastExchange users were able to submit questions to a panel of adaptation experts.
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Feature articles

Feature articles were posted weekly in CoastExchange.
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Infographics

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Case studies

Learning by sharing: case studies of adaptation in Australia and beyond

 

 

Information manuals

Ten in-depth studies of key adaptation topics of concern to coastal managers

 

 

Impact sheets

Sector-wide studies of climate change impacts in coastal Australia

 

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Sea-level rise and future climate information for coastal councils
Climate Change Adaptation Decision Support (C-CADS)

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CoastAdapt was developed by NCCARF with funding from the Australian Government through the Department of the Environment and Energy

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