Introduction to CoastAdapt

Introduction to CoastAdapt

Introduction to CoastAdapt (3172)

Jean Palutikof ¹

NCCARF, Southport, QLD, Australia

Since October 2014, NCCARF has been working to produce an online information delivery and decision support system for coastal managers. Named CoastAdapt, a beta version was delivered on 1 July 2016 to the Department of the Environment for approval. CoastAdapt should be available for review and consultation from August to November 2016. The final version is to be delivered on 28 February 2017.

CoastAdapt covers every aspect of adaptation to climate change and sea-level rise, from the basic science through to legal considerations, the relevance of jurisdictional differences in Australia, and approaches to evaluating costs and benefits. A ground-breaking aspect of CoastAdapt has been the extent to which potential users have been involved from the beginning in its design and implementation. This has been facilitated by programs of consultation through workshops and an online questionnaire, as well as advisory and governance groups that are representative of the whole range of stakeholders from the three tiers of government as well as peak bodies and business interests. In this session we present the key features of CoastAdapt and encourage attendees to go online to make an evaluation from the perspective of their interest in adaptation.

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Palutikof, J

Jean Palutikof is Director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility at Griffith University. She took up the role in October 2008, having previously managed the production of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), while based at the UK Met Office. Prior to joining the Met Office, she was a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, and Director of the Climatic Research Unit, at the University of East Anglia, UK, where she worked from 1979 to 2004, and a Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, Kenya, from 1974 to 1979. Her research interests focus on climate change impacts, and the application of climatic data to economic and planning issues. She specialises in the study of changes in extreme events and their impacts, especially windstorm. She was a Lead Author for Working Group II of the IPCC Second and Third Assessment Reports. She has authored more than 200 papers, articles and reports on the topic of climate change and climate variability. Her proudest moment to date was attending the ceremony in 2007 at which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Introduction to CoastAdapt (3172)

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