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Responding to Climate Change
Lessons from an Australian Hotspot
Edited by Paul Burton
Paperback
January 2015
9780643108615
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- Publisher
CSIRO Publishing - Published
22nd January 2015 - ISBN 9780643108615
- Language English
- Pages 216 pp.
- Size 6.625" x 9.625"
- Images maps & line art
$79.95
South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, both in terms of its rapidly growing population and an ever-expanding built environment. It is also one of the most vulnerable regions likely to suffer from the adverse impacts of climate change, especially increased flooding, storms, coastal erosion and drought.
Responding to Climate Change: Lessons from an Australian Hotspot brings together the results of cutting edge research from members of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program, showing how best to respond to anticipated changes and how to overcome barriers to adaptation. The authors treat climate change adaptation as a cross-cutting, multilevel governance policy challenge extending across human settlements, infrastructure, ecosystems, water management, primary industries, emergency management and human health.
1) So you think you know the answers – some bear-traps of climate change adaptation
2) Wicked, diabolical or what? Responding rationally in a turbulent environment
3) Rationality under uncertainty: Why politics matter
4) A Bayesian perspective of climate change adaptation in South East Queensland, Australia
5) Mainstreaming climate change adaptation: A multilevel governance agenda
6) Show me the benefits: public participation in climate adaptation planning in South East Queensland
7) Climate adaptation policy and planning in South East Queensland
8) Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation through Technology Transfer in Developing Countries: A Climate Hotspot Case from Coastal Bangladesh
9) Climate change hotspots in the tourism sector
10) Integrating pollution reporting, climate change adaptation, disaster risk management and land-use planning: A case study of the 2011 Brisbane floods
11) One man’s meat is another man’s poison: Why ‘who’ the developer is matters in climate change adaptation in the development industry
12) Adapting the Water Sector to Climate Change: Lessons from South East Queensland’s Response to the Millennium Drought
13) Climate change and the perception of flood risk
14) Adapting physical infrastructure in South East Queensland to impacts of climate change – Two case studies
15) Changing coastlines and processes
16) Coastal management in a changing climate
17) The enduring challenges of climate change
Paul Burton
Paul Burton is Professor of Urban Management and Planning and Acting Director of Griffith University’s Urban Research Program. He is a Consortium Partner representative on the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility and was Director of the Griffith Climate Change Response Program in 2011/12.