Key Findings: Heatwaves: The southern Australian Experience of 2009 Authors: Jim Reeves, Colleen Foelz, Peter Grace, Peter Best, Torben Marcussen, Shahbaz Mushtaq, Roger Stone, Margaret Loughnan, Darryn McEvoy, Ifte Ahmed, Jane Mullett, Katharine Haynes, Deanne Bird, Lucinda Coates and Megan LingYear: 2010 This factsheet presents the key findings of a project conducted to understand adaptation… Read More
Historical Case Studies of Extreme Events: Introduction to the Case Studies Author: NCCARFYear: 2012 Through 2010, NCCARF developed a suite of historical case studies to examine present-day management of climate variability and the lessons that can be learnt for adaptation to future climate change. This factsheet provides a brief introduction to the Historical Case Studies… Read More
Historical Case Studies of Extreme Events: Meteorological Context Author: NCCARFYear: 2011 This factsheet provides brief descriptions of each of the meteorological contexts explored in the Historical Case Studies of Extreme Events Project, including: drought, heatwaves, east coast lows, Queensland floods, tropical cyclones, and storm tides. Drought: defined by the Bureau of Meteorology defines drought as… Read More
Climate Change adaptation options, tools and vulnerability: Contribution of Work Package 4 to the Forest Vulnerability Assessment Authors: Robyn Wilson and Steve TurtonYear: 2011 Climate models generated in this study to investigate the impacts of future climate change on Australian forests showed that in 2030, climate change may stress some forests further than they have… Read More
An assessment of the vulnerability of Australian forests to the impacts of climate change: Establishing the need and consultation with key stakeholders in forest policy and management under climate change. Contribution of Work Package 1 to the Forest Vulnerability Assessment Authors: Kathleen Wood, Anne Roiko, Peter Waterman, Helen Wallace and Richard WarrickYear: 2012 The first… Read More
Impacts and adaptation response of infrastructure and communities to heatwaves: The southern Australian experience of 2009 Author: Queensland University of TechnologyYear: 2010 From 27 Jan 8 Feb 2009, South-Eastern Australia experienced extreme heatwaves, with maximum daytime temperatures reaching 12-15 degrees celcius above average. The severity of the event and its co-occurrence with an emerging bushfire… Read More
Biophysical impacts of climate change on Australia’s forests. Contribution of Work Package 2 to the Forest Vulnerability Assessment Authors: Belinda Medlyn, Melanie Zeppel, Niels Brouwers, Kay Howard, Emer O’Gara, Giles Hardy, Thomas Lyons, Li Li and Bradley Evans Year: 2011 This report presents a review of the literature on climate change impacts on Australian forests;… Read More
Learning from experience: Historical case studies and climate change adaptation Authors: Anthony S. Kiem, Danielle C. Verdon-Kidd, Sarah L. Boulter and Jean P. PalutikofYear: 2010 Changes of policy, actions and/or infrastructure commonly occur following extreme events. These actions are targeted at reducing the impact of any future, similar extreme event. Thus, there are parallels between… Read More
Learning from regional climate analogues Authors: John Kellett, David Ness, Cathryn Hamilton, Stephen Pullen and Anna LeditschkeYear: 2011 This project explores the potential of learning from experience for selected target cities by the study of analogue settlements which are currently experiencing climate conditions similar to those predicted for the target cities. This project studied the… Read More
An assessment of the vulnerability of Australian forests to the impacts of climate change: Synthesis. Contribution of Work Package 5 to the Forest Vulnerability Assessment Author: Sarah BoulterYear: 2012 Australias natural systems have a limited natural capacity to adapt to climate change, beyond which adaptation will be constrained by: rates of evolutionary change versus rates… Read More
