Australian coastal vulnerability assessment workshop report.

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TextPublication details: Canberra : The Dept., 1996Description: 51p. : mapSubject: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)has identified climate change as likely to have significant adverse impacts on the economic, cultural and natural values of the coastal zone in many nations.Trials of the (IPCC) Common Methodology for Vulnerability Assessment in Western Australia, Cocos islands and Kiribati as well as case studies of other nations have identified major weaknesses in the methodology. In 1993 Australia presented a revised methodology to the World Coast Conference held in the Netherlands which attempted to address these weaknesses. This report summarises a national workshop supported by the Commonwealth Government as part of its Climate Change and Coastal Action Programs to trial the revised methodology. A separate project report is available and detailed outcomes of the project and case studies are available on a CD ROM produced in conjunction with the project report

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Funded through the Climate Change Program (DEST)

Report series 4b

Research report produced for the Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)has identified climate change as likely to have significant adverse impacts on the economic, cultural and natural values of the coastal zone in many nations.Trials of the (IPCC) Common Methodology for Vulnerability Assessment in Western Australia, Cocos islands and Kiribati as well as case studies of other nations have identified major weaknesses in the methodology. In 1993 Australia presented a revised methodology to the World Coast Conference held in the Netherlands which attempted to address these weaknesses. This report summarises a national workshop supported by the Commonwealth Government as part of its Climate Change and Coastal Action Programs to trial the revised methodology. A separate project report is available and detailed outcomes of the project and case studies are available on a CD ROM produced in conjunction with the project report

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