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Understandadaptation

Basics of climateand coasts

Assess risksand impacts

Undertakeadaptation

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Why and how should we adapt

What is adaptation?
The case for adaptation
Just and fair adaptation

What helps or hinders adaptation

Barriers and limits
Collaborate and partner to adapt
Communicating climate change
Misinformation and disinformation

Coastal adaptation governance

Responsibilities for coastal adaptation
ALGA provides national support

Adaptation approaches

Adaptation approaches for coastal risk
Blue carbon and coastal restoration

Understanding climate change

Explaining causes of climate change
Climate tipping points
Complex, cascading, compounding
Looking beyond 2100
Explaining sea level rise

Understanding climate

Australia's climate drivers
Identifying climate trends
Tropical Cyclones, East Coast Lows
Long term past climate

Understanding coasts

Explaining coast and climate dynamics
Explaining waves and water levels
Explaining coastal sediments
Explaining rocky shores
Explaining ICOLLs
Explaining groundwater

Climate and coastal data and tools

Climate portals provide diverse data
Risk assessment tools

Using and communicating climate scenarios

Understanding risk assessment

Understand risk assessment concepts
Three levels of risk assessment
How to: hazard mapping
Modelling tools for local scale risk
Data for a risk assessment
How to: 1st pass risk assessment
How to: 2nd pass risk assessment
How to: 3rd pass risk assessment

Understanding impacts on coasts

Overview of impacts at the coast
Impacts on sediments

Other (non-climate) coastal stressors

Impacts of dogs on beaches
Impacts of 4WDs on beaches
Impacts of short-term rental
Impacts of underwater noise
Impacts of light
Impacts and historic landfill sites
impacts of plastics

Impacts on coastal sectors and industries

Impacts on key coastal entities

Culturally significant entities
Shellfish as a coastal multi-tool
Shorebirds as coastal canaries

Taking action on adaptation

What's the least I can do
What if I do nothing
Practitioner insight from a council

Generating organisational momentum

Get organisational buy-in
Develop a theory of change
Build a business case for adaptation
Anticipate windows of opportunity

Economics of adaptation

Economics of coastal adaptation

Using decision support: C-CADS

Get your bearings on C-CADS

Engaging the community

Engaging with community
Volunteers: who, where and why
Citizen science for conservation
Be a good coastal neighbour
Art prompts new conversations
Serious games turn learning to action
Revisit the past, vision the future

Tracking adaptation: monitoring, learning, improving

How to: select MEL indicators
eDNA for monitoring

Effective data management

Managing data for adaptation
Ethical use of data
Working with Indigenous data
Tips and traps in using data

Coastal community societies and networks

Community organisations play a pivotal role in the supporting the coastal zone – some for decades – through their capacity to mobilize local resources, knowledge, and networks. Here is a non-exhaustive list.

Australian Marine Conservation Society Australian Coastal Society Coastcare OzFish Unlimited Positive Change for Marine Life Western Australia’s Coastal and Marine Community Network

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Assess risks and impacts

Assess risks and impacts

Using and communicating climate scenarios

Understanding risk assessment

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Data for risk assessment

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Understanding impacts on coasts

Overview of impacts

Impacts on sediments

Other (non-climate) coastal stressors

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driving on beaches

Short term rental operator

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Impacts on coastal sectors and industries

Impacts on key coastal entities

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CoastAdapt was developed by NCCARF with funding from the Australian Government through the Department of the Environment and Energy

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