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Adapting to climate change publications and resources

Books and reports

  • Adaptation of Melbourne's metropolitan rail network in response to climate change - 2012
  • Australia's Adaptation Communication - 2021
  • Climate Adaptation Outlook - 2013
  • Climate change risks to Australia's coasts: a first pass national assessment - 2009
  • Climate change risks to coastal buildings and infrastructure - A supplement to the first pass national assessment - 2011
  • Climate Compass - A climate risk management framework for Commonwealth agencies - 2018
  • Coastal inundation at Narrabeen Lagoon - Optimising adaptation investment - 2013
  • Economic framework for analysis of climate change adaptation options - 2012
  • National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy - 2021
  • National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy - 2015
  • The role of regulation in facilitating or constraining adaptation to climate change for Australian infrastructure - 2012

National vulnerability assessments

  • Australia's biodiversity and climate change - A strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's biodiversity to climate change - 2013
  • Kakadu: Vulnerability to climate change impacts - 2012

Productivity Commission inquiry into Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation

  • Australian Government response to the Productivity Commission inquiry into Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation - March 2013
  • The department's submission in response to the Productivity Commission draft report: Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation - July 2012
  • The department's submission to the Productivity Commission, December 2011.

Pacific adaptation knowledge base

The Pacific Adaptation Strategy Assistance Program supported several regional and country-based assessments of climate change impacts and potential adaptation measures. These assessments covered a range of sectors: adaptive capacity and governance, coastal management, food security, health, infrastructure and water security.

Regional reports

Adaptive capacity and governance

  • Climate change adaptation in the Pacific: Making informed choices (2011)
  • Pacific adaptation to climate change: Past approaches and considerations for the future (2011)
  • Pacific Adaptive Capacity Analysis Framework (PACAF): An adaptive capacity assessment of 12 local communities in the Pacific Islands (2011)

Coastal management

  • Coastal erosion and inundation due to climate change in the Pacific and East Timor (2011)
  • Anticipated climate change impact on the coastal protection role provided by coastal ecosystems in the Pacific and East Timor (2011)
  • The Wind-wave climate of the Pacific Ocean (PDF - 3.59 MB)

Food security

  • Food security in the Pacific and East Timor and its vulnerability to climate change (PDF - 3.07 MB)

Health

  • Overview of climate change impacts on human health in the Pacific Region (2011)

Infrastructure

  • Infrastructure and climate change in the Pacific (2011)

Country-based reports

Cook Islands – governance

  • Mangoes in July: Report on Cook Islands Public Service Climate Change Functional Review and Institutional Structure Development (2011)

Fiji – adaptive capacity

  • The adaptive capacity of three Fijian Village communities: Bavu, Druadrua and Navukailangi (2011)

Samoa – food security

  • Assessing the social and economic value of germplasm and crop improvement as a climate change adaptation strategy: Samoa and Vanuatu Case Studies (2011)

Solomon Islands – adaptive capacity and infrastructure

  • Building social and ecological resilience to climate change in Roviana, Solomon Islands (2012)
  • The adaptive capacity of the Pileni Island community, Viakau Ward, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands (2011)
  • Making informed adaptation choices: A case study of climate proofing of road infrastructure in the Solomon Islands (2011)

Timor-Leste – groundwater

  • The vulnerability of groundwater resources to climate change in Timor-Leste (2012)

Tuvalu – adaptive capacity

  • Adaptive capacity in Funafuti and Lofeagai communities, Tuvalu (2011)

Vanuatu – adaptive capacity and food security

  • Adaptive capacity in the Tegua Island community, Torres Islands, Torba Province, Vanuatu (2011)
  • Assessing the social and economic value of germplasm and crop improvement as a climate change adaptation strategy: Samoa and Vanuatu case studies (2011)
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