2.2 Plenary session: The science/policy interface
Neil Adger (PDF) | Nobuo Mimura (PDF) | Diana Liverman (PDF) | Mark Stafford Smith (PDF)
2.3 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Parallel Session 2.3.1 – Climate Information for users
- Rapid assessment of the impacts of climate change (RAICC) (PDF)
- Development of high resolution integrated climatologies for marine Protected Areas (PDF)
- Potential benefits of a storyline approach to the provision of regional climate projection information (PDF)
- Delivering useful Climate Information in the UK: Continuing to learn lessons (PDF)
- Pacific Storms Climatologies: Products and Applications (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.3.2 – Adapting agriculture to climate change (session 2 of 2)
- The challenges of agricultural production in a future variable and changing climate (PDF)
- Traits and technologies to design crop breeding systems for climate change (PDF)
- Climate Change Impacts on Chilean Agriculture: Estimating sectorial adaptation based on changes of productivity and land allocation, under two Climate Change scenarios (PDF)
- Adapting to climate change in broad-acre irrigated farming systems – Case studies from the Riverina region of South East Australia (PDF)
- A risk management framework for assessing climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, grant Stone, Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Australia (PDF)
- Adaptation measures to Climate Change (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.3.3 – National and sub-national case studies of adaptation (session 1 of 2)
- What is next for Australian local government? moving from Local Adaptation Pathways to integrated adaptation planning and decision making (PDF)
- Adaptation policy in germany and multi-level governance (PDF)
- Adapting to Climate Change at multiple governance Levels: Insights from Australia (PDF)
- Local and large scale approaches to adaptation in Canada (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.3.4 – The interface of adaptation and mitigation
- Wetland Assimilation: A case study of climate change mitigation and adaptation in New Orleans (PDF)
- Linkages between Adaptation and mitigation in Forests: Landscapes, Communities and Policies (PDF)
- Managing bushfire risk using an integrated assessment of the sustainability of a planned neighbourhood (PDF)
- Carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry in the African Sahel (PDF)
- Adaptation-mitigation Interactions in Agriculture – Indentifying Synergies and Conflicts (PDF)
- Potential Consequences of Climate mitigation for Land use Change in the 21st Century (PDF)
- Implications of Climate Change Impact on Building Energy Efficiency and mitigation Effectiveness (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.3.5 – Coasts, deltas and small islands (session 2 of 2)
- Household level adaptation: saline intrusion and migration in the mekong delta, Vietnam (PDF)
- Climate change adaptation in mangrove systems (PDF)
- Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Zone management: A Capacity driven approach for the Republic of kiribati (PDF)
- Environmental migration from small island states: why islanders should not be seen as ‘canaries in the coalmine’ (PDF)
- Barriers to Effective Climate-Change Adaptation on Islands (PDF)
- Climate Change, Coastal Change, and Adaptation on a Low-Lying Coral Cay: A Case Study from masig, Torres Strait, Australia (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.3.6 – Human security, social and equity issues
- Adaptation and development: Whose goals and Priorities Count? (PDF)
- What people care about: focusing effort on highly effective adaptations (PDF)
- Migration doesn’t have to be a failure of adaptation. An escape from environmental determinism (PDF)
- Understanding Social Resilience to Climate Variability in Primary Enterprises and Industries (PDF)
- Small in a small island state: implications of climate change adaptation on human security in the Solomon Islands (PDF)
- Will diversity assist adaptability? A case study contrasting diverse and specialised fishing sectors in the Queensland Inshore Fishery, Australia (PDF)
- The absolute homeless and increasing climate variability: insights from Waterloo Region, Canada (PDF)
2.4 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Parallel Session 2.4.1 – Risk communication and behavioural change
- Communication strategies to support successful implementation of managed retreat from coastal margins and floodplains- examples from New Zealand (PDF)
- Risk Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change: Comparative Case Studies (PDF)
- Understanding Perceptions of Future Climate Change to Inform Adaptation Needs: A Case Study of the Rewa delta, Viti Levu Island, Fiji (PDF)
- Transforming domestic consumption patterns in urban water supply in South East Queensland (PDF)
- Interviewing sceptical farmers about climate change adaptations (PDF)
- Enabling Climate Adaptation: Navigating Communication Pathways (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.4.2 – Water sector adaptation: innovations
- Managing Water Resources under Climate uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities (PDF)
- Adaptive strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on European freshwater ecosystems (PDF)
- Urban Water Supply in an Energy Constrained Australia: the water-energy nexus (PDF)
- Effective water planning to maintain water supply at acceptable levels of risk (PDF)
- Changing monsoon Pattern and its Impact on Water Resources in Himalaya: Responses & Adaptation (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.4.3 – National and sub-national case studies of adaptation (session 2 of 2)
- From climate change science to adaptation planning and decision making: The Ouranos experience (PDF)
- Measuring the unmeasurable: The development of adaptation indicators in England (PDF)
- Effectiveness of adaptation to climate change in the Netherlands: A sub-national case study at six meters below sea level (PDF)
- Adaptation challenges facing the State of Victoria, Australia: an exploration of the evolving institutional response (PDF)
- Defining and assessing maladaptation (PDF)
- Observed adaptation to climate change: UK evidence of transition to a well-adapting society (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.4.4 – Research meets business and industry
- Tourism, Climate Change and Adaptation: New South Wales Local government Responses (PDF)
- Adaptation of the Australian electricity sector (PDF)
- A Reliability Assessment of Railway Track Performance in Extreme Heatwave Events (PDF)
- Adapting the industry to climate change: the role of climate services (PDF)
- Vulnerability of the aquaculture sector to climate change in Vietnam (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.4.5 – Impacts and adaptation in the tropics
- Climate change and multiple impact assessment for marine management in melanesia (PDF)
- A systematic vulnerability assessment: analysing the vulnerability of sea turtle nesting grounds to climate change (PDF)
- Criteria and Indicators for Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change and developing Participatory Adaptation measures: Javan Rhino Conservation, ujung kulon National Park, Indonesia (PDF)
- Knowledge of climate refugia (past and present) to inform conservation in a changing world (PDF)
- Vulnerability of coastal island and adaptation measures for cyclonic storm surge and climate change in the coastal area of Bangladesh (PDF)
- Responding to Community Vulnerability in the Pacific Islands (PDF)
- Impacts of Climate Change on the Straits of malacca: The ‘Three major (PDF)
Parallel Session 2.4.6 – Engineering and technology solutions for adaptation
- Key barriers and potential solutions for developing climate change adaptation strategies for infrastructure (PDF)
- Why are utilities Reluctant to Adapt to Climate Change? – A Survey in the Energy and Transportation Sectors (PDF)
- Water Pipe Failure Predictions under different Climate Change Scenarios (PDF)
- Framework models for Adaptation Strategies for Buildings (PDF)
- Deterioration of Concrete Structures under Changing Climate in Australian Coastal Cities (PDF)
- Spatial Information Technologies for Climate Change Impact on Ecosystems: detecting and mapping Invasive Weeds in the Rio grande River System of South Texas (PDF)