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    Step 1: Identify the challenges

    A key component of adaptation planning is to clarify your objectives and to understand how climate change is likely to affect you, your organisation and its stakeholders.
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    Reducing the risk of a legal challenge

    Any decisions made by coastal managers that involve climate change run the risk of a legal challenge.
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    Ocean acidification and its effects

    Oceans absorb a substantial proportion of the CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by human activities, with potentially negative effects on shell-forming organisms
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    Overview of the impacts on our coast

    Australian coastal zones are likely to experience the full range of direct and indirect climate change impacts.
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    Step 2: Assessing Risks and Vulnerabilities

    Assessing risks and vulnerabilities to climate change will help to create a risk register to support identifying and planning adaptation options.
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    Guidance on how to build a business case for climate change adaptation: Lessons from coastal Australia

    Effective business plans for climate adaptation are essential to ensure organisational support, access to required resources, and ultimately for achieving action.  Successful business cases rely on properly structured and informed documents, and also on adopting a strategic approach to progress the business case through your organisation. 
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    How climate and sea level have changed over the long-term past

    Climate and sea levels change over timescales from decades to millions of years, in response to a number of forcings of which anthropogenic climate change is one.
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    What is adaptation to climate change?

    Adaptation is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as ‘the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects’. 
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    Engineering solutions for coastal infrastructure
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    The role of coastal decision makers in managing climate adaptation

    Coastal managers in the public and private sectors, including infrastructure providers, have responsibilities for adaptation to climate change and sea-level rise.