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    Adapt between the flags: The experience of Surf Life Saving Australia

    Surf Life Saving Australia has initiated a process to cope with climate change conditions at the local and national level, identifying adaptation options and key factors to increase the organisation’s adaptive capacity and resilience
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    The Eyre Peninsula: A case study of effective adaptation policy making and support

    The Eyre Peninsula Integrated Climate Change Agreement (EPICCA) has developed a regional adaptation plan building on past climate change planning work and incorporating an adaptation pathways analysis
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    The Witness King Tides project: a creative way for the community to imagine climate risks

    The Witness King Tides project encourages people to photograph their local shoreline during the highest tide of the year to illustrate the vulnerability of coastal areas under sea-level rise
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    The Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypass Project

    The Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypass Project provides an example of how engineering can work with natural processes to accommodate multiple, and sometimes competing, priorities for coasts and beaches
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    Choiseul Bay Township Adaptation and Relocation Program, Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands

    The community of Choiseul Bay township, located at the northern tip of the Solomon Islands within Choiseul Province, has prepared an integrated climate change risk and adaptation strategy that contemplates the relocation of the Province’s capital
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    A case study of good coastal adaptation on the Hunter River, NSW

    The loss of ecosystem services in the Hunter River floodplain as a result of land use conversion and sea-level rise was addressed through restoration and rehabilitation work
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    Brisbane water and wastewater supply climate-flood resilience

    Queensland Urban Utilities, the provider of water and wastewater services to Brisbane, has undertaken a substantial climate-flood resilience and adaptation initiative that includes a major risk assessment study, and a subsequent capital works programme
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    The Sydney Coastal Councils Group experience: prioritising coastal adaptation options at the local level

    The Sydney Coastal Councils Group (SCCG) undertook a project to provide guidance to decision-makers on assessing adaptation options through a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) of interventions that considered local government’s adaptation preferences and risk exposure
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    Kakadu - Vulnerability to climate change impacts

    A case study of potential climate change impacts on the values of the South Alligator River catchment in Kakadu National Park. An assessment of the risk of saltwater intrusion and extreme rainfall events on low-lying coastal wetlands will help guide future management and policy responses
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    Old ways for new challenges: Indigenous Adaptation to Climate Change

    The case studies presented here provide a collection of several initiatives undertaken by Australian Indigenous peoples settled in coastal areas, in their efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change