Presentations

Day 1

1.1 Opening Plenary

Jean Palutikof (PDF) | Martin Parry (PDF)

1.2 Plenary: Frontiers in adaptation science

Mark Howden (PDF) | Steve Schneider (PDF)

1.3 Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session 1.3.1 – Scenarios of the future for adaptation

• Systematic and transparent exploration of scenario spaces: Socio-economic scenarios for local climate change adaptation (PDF)
• Perverse Adaptation Strategies: Four Scenarios (PDF)
• Future makers or future takers? A scenario analysis of climate change and the great Barrier Reef (PDF)
• Mapping Population and Climate Change Vulnerabilities: Challenges of Reaching Policy Audiences (PDF)
• Looking ahead and adapting? Comparative analysis of future scenarios for the fisheries sectors in Peru, Senegal, ghana, mauritania and Vietnam (PDF)
• Understanding design for planning alternative landscape futures to adapt to Climate Change: Learning from Temporal inconsistencies in vulnerability and adaptation studies (PDF)

Parallel Session 1.3.2 – Adapting agriculture to climate change (session 1 of 2)

Parallel Session 1.3.3 – A Climate of Uncertainty: Indigenous Land Managers, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change

• Nolan Hunter and Sonia Leonard, Kimberley Land Council (PDF)
• Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (PDF)
• Viv and Sinnamon and Philip Mango, Kowanyama Land and Natural Resource Management Office (PDF)
• Walter Mackie and David Hanslow, Torres Strait Regional Authority (PDF)

Parallel Session 1.3.4 – The economics and costs of adaptation

• Decision making in a Changing Climate: Responding to uncertainty, Surprise and the Lag of Impacts (PDF)
• Adapting economics to climate change adaptation (PDF)
• A HECS on all your houses: financing climate-induced retreat from coastal inundation (PDF)
• Shaping Climate Resilient development – a framework for decision making (PDF)
• Adding climate impacts and adaptation possibilities to an economic computable general equilibrium model (PDF)
• Adaptation responses and costs for Australia’s critical energy network infrastructure – a case study (PDF)
• Impacts of Climate Change to Asian Coastal Areas: The case of metro manila (PDF)
• Implementing information on the costs and benefits of adaptation in a portfolio –based decision framework (PDF)

Parallel Session 1.3.5 – Coasts, deltas and small islands (session 1 of 2)

• Heading for the walls: rising sea and declining options in South East Queensland (PDF)
• Retreat: designing policies and pathways for resilient coastal development (PDF)
• From coping to managed retreat- a transition approach for adapting to sea level rise and increased flood frequency (PDF)
• The devil and the deep Blue Sea: Legal Responses to Climate Change Risks in Australian Coastal Communities (PDF)
• Adapting coastal policies and instruments to climate change: a case study from South East Queensland, Australia (PDF)
• Coastal governance in Western Australia: mapping response capacity to climate adaptation (PDF)

Parallel Session 1.3.6 – Adaptation and the community (session 1 of 2)

• Guiding principles for good practice in adaptation to climate change – Results of a European survey with 250 adaptation experts (PDF)
• Impacts of climate change on coastal recreation and public safety (PDF)
• Adaptation to climate change: a longitudinal media study of an Australian rural community (PDF)
• Processes of adaptation – lessons learned from three case studies of community-based adaptation in Limpopo province, South Africa (PDF)
• Adaptation Challenges to Climate Change disasters in the karamoja Cluster (Cattle Corridor) in uganda (PDF)
• Policy processes, institutional systems, and adaptation (PDF)
• A conceptual framework for understanding adaptive capacity to climate change (PDF)
• Using science to articulate an uncertain future for strategic climate change decision-making (PDF)
• The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: a useful conceptual framework for participatory community-driven processes for the identification of climate change impacts and community adaptation strategies (PDF)
• How to enable the public to participate more effectively in adaptation policy and practice (PDF)
• Planning for climate change in New South Wales: do planning laws and climate change litigation hinder or help? (PDF)
• Adaptation decision making in New Orleans: Wetland Assimilation Feasibility Planning (PDF)

1.4 PANEL SESSIONS

Panel Session 1 – Financing Adaptation: International transfers and global geopolitics

Robin Davies (AusAid, Australia) (PDF) | Ian Noble (The World Bank, USA) (PDF) | Emma Tompkins (University of Leeds, UK) (PDF) | Saleemul Huq (IIED) (PDF)

Panel Session 2 – Is building resilience the answer?

Edward Allison (WorldFish Centre) (PDF) | Joshua Cinner (James Cook University, Australia) (PDF) | Chris Cocklin (James Cook University, Australia) (PDF) | Louisa Evans (WorldFish Centre) (PDF) | Nick Graham (James Cook University, Australia) (PDF)

Panel Session 3 – Measuring the effectiveness of adaptation

1.5 Welcome Reception

Day 2

2.2 Plenary session: The science/policy interface

Neil Adger (PDF) | Nobuo Mimura (PDF) | Diana Liverman (PDF) | Mark Stafford Smith (PDF)

2.3 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Parallel Session 2.3.1 – Climate Information for users

• Rapid assessment of the impacts of climate change (RAICC) (PDF)
• Development of high resolution integrated climatologies for marine Protected Areas (PDF)
• Potential benefits of a storyline approach to the provision of regional climate projection information (PDF)
• Delivering useful Climate Information in the UK: Continuing to learn lessons (PDF)
• Pacific Storms Climatologies: Products and Applications (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.3.2 – Adapting agriculture to climate change (session 2 of 2)

• The challenges of agricultural production in a future variable and changing climate (PDF)
• Traits and technologies to design crop breeding systems for climate change (PDF)
• Climate Change Impacts on Chilean Agriculture: Estimating sectorial adaptation based on changes of productivity and land allocation, under two Climate Change scenarios (PDF)
• Adapting to climate change in broad-acre irrigated farming systems – Case studies from the Riverina region of South East Australia (PDF)
• A risk management framework for assessing climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, grant Stone, Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Australia (PDF)
• Adaptation measures to Climate Change (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.3.3 – National and sub-national case studies of adaptation (session 1 of 2)

• What is next for Australian local government? moving from Local Adaptation Pathways to integrated adaptation planning and decision making (PDF)
• Adaptation policy in germany and multi-level governance (PDF)
• Adapting to Climate Change at multiple governance Levels: Insights from Australia (PDF)
• Local and large scale approaches to adaptation in Canada (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.3.4 – The interface of adaptation and mitigation

• Wetland Assimilation: A case study of climate change mitigation and adaptation in New Orleans (PDF)
• Linkages between Adaptation and mitigation in Forests: Landscapes, Communities and Policies (PDF)
• Managing bushfire risk using an integrated assessment of the sustainability of a planned neighbourhood (PDF)
• Carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry in the African Sahel (PDF)
• Adaptation-mitigation Interactions in Agriculture – Indentifying Synergies and Conflicts (PDF)
• Potential Consequences of Climate mitigation for Land use Change in the 21st Century (PDF)
• Implications of Climate Change Impact on Building Energy Efficiency and mitigation Effectiveness (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.3.5 – Coasts, deltas and small islands (session 2 of 2)

• Household level adaptation: saline intrusion and migration in the mekong delta, Vietnam (PDF)
• Climate change adaptation in mangrove systems (PDF)
• Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Zone management: A Capacity driven approach for the Republic of kiribati (PDF)
• Environmental migration from small island states: why islanders should not be seen as ‘canaries in the coalmine’ (PDF)
• Barriers to Effective Climate-Change Adaptation on Islands (PDF)
• Climate Change, Coastal Change, and Adaptation on a Low-Lying Coral Cay: A Case Study from masig, Torres Strait, Australia (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.3.6 – Human security, social and equity issues

• Adaptation and development: Whose goals and Priorities Count? (PDF)
• What people care about: focusing effort on highly effective adaptations (PDF)
• Migration doesn’t have to be a failure of adaptation. An escape from environmental determinism (PDF)
• Understanding Social Resilience to Climate Variability in Primary Enterprises and Industries (PDF)
• Small in a small island state: implications of climate change adaptation on human security in the Solomon Islands (PDF)
• Will diversity assist adaptability? A case study contrasting diverse and specialised fishing sectors in the Queensland Inshore Fishery, Australia (PDF)
• The absolute homeless and increasing climate variability: insights from Waterloo Region, Canada (PDF)

2.4 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Parallel Session 2.4.1 – Risk communication and behavioural change

• Communication strategies to support successful implementation of managed retreat from coastal margins and floodplains- examples from New Zealand (PDF)
• Risk Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change: Comparative Case Studies (PDF)
• Understanding Perceptions of Future Climate Change to Inform Adaptation Needs: A Case Study of the Rewa delta, Viti Levu Island, Fiji (PDF)
• Transforming domestic consumption patterns in urban water supply in South East Queensland (PDF)
• Interviewing sceptical farmers about climate change adaptations (PDF)
• Enabling Climate Adaptation: Navigating Communication Pathways (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.4.2 – Water sector adaptation: innovations

• Managing Water Resources under Climate uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities (PDF)
• Adaptive strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on European freshwater ecosystems (PDF)
• Urban Water Supply in an Energy Constrained Australia: the water-energy nexus (PDF)
• Effective water planning to maintain water supply at acceptable levels of risk (PDF)
• Changing monsoon Pattern and its Impact on Water Resources in Himalaya: Responses & Adaptation (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.4.3 – National and sub-national case studies of adaptation (session 2 of 2)

• From climate change science to adaptation planning and decision making: The Ouranos experience (PDF)
• Measuring the unmeasurable: The development of adaptation indicators in England (PDF)
• Effectiveness of adaptation to climate change in the Netherlands: A sub-national case study at six meters below sea level (PDF)
• Adaptation challenges facing the State of Victoria, Australia: an exploration of the evolving institutional response (PDF)
• Defining and assessing maladaptation (PDF)
• Observed adaptation to climate change: uk evidence of transition to a well-adapting society (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.4.4 – Research meets business and industry

• Tourism, Climate Change and Adaptation: New South Wales Local government Responses (PDF)
• Adaptation of the Australian electricity sector (PDF)
• A Reliability Assessment of Railway Track Performance in Extreme Heatwave Events (PDF)
• Adapting the industry to climate change: the role of climate services (PDF)
• Vulnerability of the aquaculture sector to climate change in Vietnam (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.4.5 – Impacts and adaptation in the tropics

• Climate change and multiple impact assessment for marine management in melanesia (PDF)
• A systematic vulnerability assessment: analysing the vulnerability of sea turtle nesting grounds to climate change (PDF)
• Criteria and Indicators for Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change and developing Participatory Adaptation measures: Javan Rhino Conservation, ujung kulon National Park, Indonesia (PDF)
• Knowledge of climate refugia (past and present) to inform conservation in a changing world (PDF)
• Vulnerability of coastal island and adaptation measures for cyclonic storm surge and climate change in the coastal area of Bangladesh (PDF)
• Responding to Community Vulnerability in the Pacific Islands (PDF)
• Impacts of Climate Change on the Straits of malacca: The ‘Three major (PDF)

Parallel Session 2.4.6 – Engineering and technology solutions for adaptation

• Key barriers and potential solutions for developing climate change adaptation strategies for infrastructure (PDF)
• Why are utilities Reluctant to Adapt to Climate Change? – A Survey in the Energy and Transportation Sectors (PDF)
• Water Pipe Failure Predictions under different Climate Change Scenarios (PDF)
• Framework models for Adaptation Strategies for Buildings (PDF)
• Deterioration of Concrete Structures under Changing Climate in Australian Coastal Cities (PDF)
• Spatial Information Technologies for Climate Change Impact on Ecosytems: detecting and mapping Invasive Weeds in the Rio grande River System of South Texas (PDF)

2.5 PANEL SESSSIONS

Panel Session 4 – Providing the essential information, knowledge and skills for adaptation

• Jean Palutikof (NCCARF) (PDF)

Panel Session 5 – Vulnerability/risk assessment for extreme events

• Suraje Dessai (University of Exeter, UK) (PDF)
• Arthur Webb (SOPAC) (PDF)

Panel Session 6 – Australian Case Studies: practical adaptation – making it happen on the ground

• Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (University of Queensland, Australia) (PDF)
• Scott Smithers (James Cook University, Australia) (PDF)

Day 3

3.2 Plenary: Four Case Studies in Adaptation

Antonio Magalhães (PDF) | David Dodman (PDF) | Isabelle Niang (PDF) | Jun Xia (PDF)

3.3 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Parallel Session 3.3.1 – Communication of information for adaptation

• Climate adaptation strategies and cultural engagements in mumbai, India: exploring paths to more effective climate governance via mass media communications (PDF)
• The Weakest Link: The uptake of knowledge on vulnerability into decision making (PDF)
• Enabling climate adaptation: moving from information provision to knowledge integration (PDF)
• Designer guidance: climate change information for New Zealand users (PDF)
• Indigenous people and climate change adaptation: Facilitating equitable access to information (PDF)
• Communication and the resilient community (PDF)

Parallel Session 3.3.2 – Ecosystems (session 1 of 2)

• Marine Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation Report Card: Seabirds (PDF)
• When should we stop learning about climate impacts on biodiversity and act? (PDF)
• Conservation planning for adaptation to climate change: an operational framework (PDF)
• Understanding climate change impacts and adaption for ecosystems using qualitative models (PDF)
• Ecosystem Services for Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Studies from Semi-Arid Botswana, Africa (PDF)
• An integrated regional approach to climate adaptation – the great Barrier Reef Climate Change Action Plan (PDF)

Parallel Session 3.3.3 – Constructing and enabling local knowledge

• Partner or Perish: Regional governance for Local Adaptation (PDF)
• Shared Learning on Adapting to Climate Change – Experiences from the Columbia Basin Trust Initiative ‘Communities Adapting to Climate Change’ (PDF)
• Effective Community Engagement to Reach Agreement over Climate Adaptation: utilising Consensus Building and Joint Fact-Finding Strategies (PDF)
• Adapting through local planning: barriers and opportunities for climate adaptation (PDF)
• Lessons learnt from Fiji rural climate change adaptation project (PDF)
• Developing citizen science as a communication and research tool for monitoring ecological change in the marine environment (PDF)
• Building Resilience to Climate Change through Community Based development Planning: Lessons from Addressing Climate Impacts in a Rural Coastal Community in Hawaii (PDF)

Parallel Session 3.3.4 – National and international adaptation activities

• International Co-operation on Adaptation to global Environmental Change: Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) and Earth System Analysis (PDF)
• Supporting Adaptation in Least developing Countries: The International geosphere- Biosphere Programme (IgBP) Synthesis, Integration, and Exploration (SIE) Activity (PDF)
• Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) (PDF)
• How Europe adapts to climate change (PDF)
• Climate change adaptation and associated policy challenges: an international and national perspective (PDF)
• The german Adaptation Strategy: good practices and lessons learnt (PDF)
• Benchmarking the level of adaptation planning in Australian organisations (PDF)

Parallel Session 3.3.5 – Climate extremes and disaster management (session 1 of 2)

• Livelihoods, vulnerability and disasters, Joshua Whittaker, RMIT University , Australia (PDF)
• Does ‘drought’ exist anymore in Australia? The challenge of adapting to a normalised climate extreme (PDF)
• Adapting to climate change: development of an integrated decision support tool for disaster and evacuation planning in regional areas (PDF)
• Linking disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Best practices of the Red Cross societies in delivering its assistance to support the flood prone areas in Indonesia (PDF)
• The role of disaster relief in Pacific Island countries: a cause of increasing vulnerability? (PDF)

Parallel Session 3.3.6 – Adaptation and the community (session 2 of 2)

• Adaptation Strategies of Coffee Producers in Coatepec, Veracruz , mexico to Climate Variability and Change (PDF)
• Rural livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate hazards: Reflections on a case study in Ningxia, Northwest China (PDF)
• Extreme events preparedness planning in indigenous communities in Canada (PDF)
• The Louisiana united Houma Nation Case Study of Native American Adaptation and mitigation (PDF)
• Adaptive Pathways for the Future: Indigenous Peoples, Traditional knowledge and Climate Change (PPS)
• Summary of a presentation of the work of HOPE in the area of community education on adaptation/mitigation to anthropogenic climate change (PDF)

3.4 PARALLEL SESSIONS

Parallel Session 3.5.1 – New concepts in adaptation

Parallel Session 3.5.2 – Ecosystems (session 2 of 2)

Parallel Session 3.5.3 – Adaptation and development

Parallel Session 3.5.4 – Adaptating to climate change in cities

Parallel Session 3.5.5 – Climate extremes and disaster management (session 2 of 2)

Parallel Session 3.5.6 – Public health adaptation to variability and change

3.5 Closing Plenary: Looking forward

Rik Leemans (PDF) | Chris Field (PDF)