1.1 Opening Plenary
Climate Change, Adaptation, and IPCC
Jean Palutikof
The Challenge for Adaptation: The Legacy from Copenhagen
Martin Parry
Frontiers in adaptation science: Food security/natural environments
Mark Howden
Uncertainty/limits to adaptation/adapting to +4°C
Steve Schneider
1.3 Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session 1.3.1 – Scenarios of the future for adaptation
- Systematic and transparent exploration of scenario spaces: Socio-economic scenarios for local climate change adaptation (PDF)
- Perverse Adaptation Strategies: Four Scenarios (PDF)
- Future makers or future takers? A scenario analysis of climate change and the Great Barrier Reef (PDF)
- Mapping Population and Climate Change Vulnerabilities: Challenges of Reaching Policy Audiences (PDF)
- Looking ahead and adapting? Comparative analysis of future scenarios for the fisheries sectors in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, Mauritania and Vietnam (PDF)
- Understanding design for planning alternative landscape futures to adapt to Climate Change: Learning from Temporal inconsistencies in vulnerability and adaptation studies (PDF)
Parallel Session 1.3.2 – Adapting agriculture to climate change (session 1 of 2)
Parallel Session 1.3.3 – A Climate of Uncertainty: Indigenous Land Managers, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change
- Nolan Hunter and Sonia Leonard, Kimberley Land Council (PDF)
- Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (PDF)
- Viv and Sinnamon and Philip Mango, Kowanyama Land and Natural Resource Management Office (PDF)
- Walter Mackie and David Hanslow, Torres Strait Regional Authority (PDF)
Parallel Session 1.3.4 – The economics and costs of adaptation
- Decision making in a Changing Climate: Responding to uncertainty, Surprise and the Lag of Impacts (PDF)
- Adapting economics to climate change adaptation (PDF)
- A HECS on all your houses: financing climate-induced retreat from coastal inundation (PDF)
- Shaping Climate Resilient development – a framework for decision making (PDF)
- Adding climate impacts and adaptation possibilities to an economic computable general equilibrium model (PDF)
- Adaptation responses and costs for Australia’s critical energy network infrastructure – a case study (PDF)
- Impacts of Climate Change to Asian Coastal Areas: The case of metro Manila (PDF)
- Implementing information on the costs and benefits of adaptation in a portfolio –based decision framework (PDF)
Parallel Session 1.3.5 – Coasts, deltas and small islands (session 1 of 2)
- Heading for the walls: rising sea and declining options in South East Queensland (PDF)
- Retreat: designing policies and pathways for resilient coastal development (PDF)
- From coping to managed retreat- a transition approach for adapting to sea level rise and increased flood frequency (PDF)
- The devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Legal Responses to Climate Change Risks in Australian Coastal Communities (PDF)
- Adapting coastal policies and instruments to climate change: a case study from South East Queensland, Australia (PDF)
- Coastal governance in Western Australia: mapping response capacity to climate adaptation (PDF)
Parallel Session 1.3.6 – Adaptation and the community (session 1 of 2)
- Guiding principles for good practice in adaptation to climate change – Results of a European survey with 250 adaptation experts (PDF)
- Impacts of climate change on coastal recreation and public safety (PDF)
- Adaptation to climate change: a longitudinal media study of an Australian rural community (PDF)
- Processes of adaptation – lessons learned from three case studies of community-based adaptation in Limpopo province, South Africa (PDF)
- Adaptation Challenges to Climate Change disasters in the Karamoja Cluster (Cattle Corridor) in Uganda (PDF)
- Policy processes, institutional systems, and adaptation (PDF)
- A conceptual framework for understanding adaptive capacity to climate change (PDF)
- Using science to articulate an uncertain future for strategic climate change decision-making (PDF)
- The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: a useful conceptual framework for participatory community-driven processes for the identification of climate change impacts and community adaptation strategies (PDF)
- How to enable the public to participate more effectively in adaptation policy and practice (PDF)
- Planning for climate change in New South Wales: do planning laws and climate change litigation hinder or help? (PDF)
- Adaptation decision making in New Orleans: Wetland Assimilation Feasibility Planning (PDF)
1.4 PANEL SESSIONS
Panel Session 1 – Financing Adaptation: International transfers and global geopolitics
Robin Davies (AusAid, Australia) (PDF) | Ian Noble (The World Bank, USA) (PDF) | Emma Tompkins (University of Leeds, UK) (PDF) | Saleemul Huq (IIED) (PDF)
Panel Session 2 – Is building resilience the answer?
Edward Allison (WorldFish Centre) (PDF) | Joshua Cinner (James Cook University, Australia) (PDF) | Chris Cocklin (James Cook University, Australia) (PDF) | Louisa Evans (WorldFish Centre) (PDF) | Nick Graham (James Cook University, Australia) (PDF)