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Climate Change Impacts on a Coastal Community: Planning for Sustainable Adaptation

This presentation discusses the potential impacts of climate change on a coastal community in South Australia, including projections for increased hot days, decreased frost days, reduced rainfall, sea-level rise, stronger storms, and the potential risks for human ecosystems. It also explores the need for wider policy changes and community engagement to adapt to climate change. The presentation draws on various research studies and reports on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies in South Australia.

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Climate Change Impacts on a Coastal Community: Planning for Sustainable Adaptation

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  1. Projections for SA, 2030 10-50% hot days 20-80% decrease in frost days rainfall decreases likely, particularly in autumn and spring = less runoff, shorter growing seasons, more droughts increases in extreme rainfall events = flooding & soil erosion Sea-level rise More strong storms (McInnes et al. 2003)

  2. You have received a planning submission for a SA coastal community • An application for a new caravan park in a small country town • Near the coast: dunes + reef • Near a river: estuary • Surrounded by scrub containing rare and endangered species: red-tailed black cockatoo • Wine and fruit growing area + Climate change

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  7. Key finding … the overwhelming majority of respondents indicated a willingness to accept wider policy changes to adapt to climate change, even if it meant that such changes would involve them making personal sacrifices. (Bardsley & Liddicoat 2008)

  8. Risk for global human ecosystems ….Climate change Globalisation: changing supply & demand Land and water redirected for other uses eg. biofuels Ongoing natural resource depletion Rising energy and fuel prices Rising social inequality/poverty Urbanisation……

  9. Employment & climate change • Geography educates for boundary-spanning individuals with interdisciplinary knowledge, skills, degrees and values • Interdisciplinary systems thinkers & workers, communicators, conveners, mediators • A significant employment niche in a service-based global economy • People who develop trust by working with credible information, legitimise roles of stakeholders, understand environmental & socio-cultural contexts & are flexible enough to deal with uncertainty

  10. This presentation prepared from: Bardsley, D.K. & Rogers, G. (In Press) Prioritising engagement for sustainable adaptation to climate change: An example from natural resource management in South Australia, Society & Natural Resources. Bardsley D.K. & Sweeney S. (In Press) A regional climate change decision framework for natural resource management. DWLBC Report 2008, SA Government, Adel. Bardsley D.K. & Liddicoat C. (2008) Community perceptions of climate change impacts on natural resource management in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges. DWLBC Report 2008/14, SA Gov., Adel. Bardsley D.K & Bardsley A.M. (2007) A Constructivist Approach to Climate Change Teaching and Learning. Geog. Res., 45: 329-339. Bardsley D.K. & Edwards-Jones G. (2007) Invasive species policy and climate change: social perceptions of environmental change in the Mediterranean, Env. Sci. & Policy, 10: 230-242. Bardsley D. (2006) There's a change on the way - An initial integrated assessment of projected climate change impacts and adaptation options for Natural Resource Management in the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Region. DWLBC Report 2006/06, SA Gov., Adel. Bardsley D.K. & Thomas I. (2006) In situ agrobiodiversity conservation: examples from Nepal, Turkey and Switzerland in the first decade of the CBD, J. of Env. Pl. & Man., 49: 653-674. Crossman ND, B A. Bryan & DK. Bardsley (2008) Modelling Native and Exotic Flora Distributions under Climate Change. Final Report - April 2008 CSIRO Land and Water Science Report 01/08. Houston P. & Rowland J., with Bardsley D., Sweeney S., Hayman P., Nidumolu U., James P., Ranford T. & Williams A. (2008) Room to Move: Towards a strategy to assist the Adelaide Hills apple industry adapt to climate change in a contested peri-urban environment. DWLBC 2008/In Press. IPCC website, www.ipcc.ch McInnes K.L., Suppiah R., Whetton P.H., Hennessy K.J. & Jones R.N. (2003) Climate change in South Australia. CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Melbourne.

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