At a glance
This page is for community organisations working with and for coastal communities. These are likely to include the following not-for-profit groups.
- Community services and support organisations, which may see increased demand for their services as climate change affects people’s health, wellbeing and livelihoods.
- Volunteer and emergency resilience groups, which play a vital role in community preparedness, emergency response and recovery.
- Environmental, Landcare and Dunecare groups, which help manage and protect natural areas and ecosystems that are increasingly affected by climate change.
- Local community associations and networks, which bring people together, share local knowledge and help coordinate community-led adaptation efforts.
A key question for these organisations is what climate change means for the people, places and environments they support, and for their own ability to continue delivering services and activities into the future.
Highlighting resources useful for community organisations
Whether you provide essential services, care for local environments, bring people together or support communities through emergencies, CoastAdapt can help you understand climate risks and plan for change.
Whether you are just starting to explore climate change or are ready to plan for action, the resources below can help you take the next step.
- Understand the impacts of climate change in coastal areas.
- CoastAdapt has two tools to help you identify risk at your coast.
- Shoreline Explorer tool – three data sets – shows at present-day vulnerability and erodibility. If you haven't used Shoreline Explorer before, read this guidance first.
- Sea-level Rise and You tool shows future sea-level rise and inundation. If you haven't used SLR & You before, read this guidance first.
- You can find out more about the extreme storms that affect Australia and their impacts: Tropical cyclones and East Coast Lows
- More general information on climate hazards in NCCARF's synthesis summaries.
- Then you can do a first pass risk assessment to see if you need to take further action. If you haven't done a first pass risk assessment, read the basics first.
- Use CoastAdapt's Coastal Climate Adaptation Decision Support (CCADS) for a practical and flexible approach to develop a plan for your organisation to adapt to climate change.
- Develop a business case for adaptation
- Get advice on grant writing
- Don't waste a disaster! Anticipate 'windows of opportunity'
Find guidance to:
- engage community members
- seek and support volunteers
- build collaboration and working together to understand risks and develop locally appropriate adaptation responses
- learn about coastal or adaptation organisations that might have useful resources or would make good partners.
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