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Research
Settlements and Infrastructure

Climate change poses significant threats to the social fabric of our towns and cities, and to our urban and strategic infrastructure. Developing adaptation options will be critical in reducing these impacts. NCCARF has funded more than $5.2 million in research to meet the priorities identified in the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plan for Settlements and Infrastructure.
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Executive summary from final report
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Executive summary from final report: (The rich will find their world to be more expensive, inconvenient, uncomfortable, disrupted, and colourless – in general, more unpleasant and unpredictable, perhaps greatly so. The poor will die (Smith, 2008: 1).
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Executive summary from final report
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Executive summary from final report
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Executive summary from final report
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Executive summary from final report
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Abstsract from final report: This report stems from a larger research project that aimed to determine and demonstrate/trial how existing urban planning principles and practices could accommodate climate change and the uncertainty of climate change impacts for a “seachange” region.
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Executive summary from final report