Methodological and practical insights from Australian research on urban climate change impacts and adaptation
Cities and towns will house the majority of the world’s population in future, and these human habitats will be impacted upon by predicted climate change. In the last two years, attention has shifted from (i) whether climate change will happen and to what extent, toward what societies’ responses s...
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Environmental Management Society, Malaysia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2287/1/MJEM_2009_3_Dovers__ok_.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2287/ http://www.ems-malaysia.org/mjem/index.html |
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| Summary: | Cities and towns will house the majority of the world’s population in future, and
these human habitats will be impacted upon by predicted climate change. In the
last two years, attention has shifted from (i) whether climate change will happen
and to what extent, toward what societies’ responses should be, and (ii) from a
largely natural science-led debate to one where social science and professional
and community knowledge are called upon. As coarser scale scenarios
generated from climate models have become more accepted, there is now
increasing focus on understanding climate change at finer scales to inform
responses at the local and municipal level which is where many policy and
management decisions are made. This paper presents insights for climate change
impact assessment methodologies and practical adaptive responses for smallmedium
scale urban settlements, drawing on an integrated assessment (IA) of
five Australian settlements. The paper outlines the IA methodology developed –
Integrated Systems Risk and Vulnerability Assessment – how selected climate
impacts were investigated, and summarises insights into the practice of local
scale assessment and adaptation |
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