The Ebb and Flow of Coastal Adaptation in Australia
Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: With 80 percent of its population and associated infrastructure within fifty kilometers of the coast, Australia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise. Despite calls for a standard national approach, Australian states and territories have each developed their own planning response to coastal climate hazards. The resulting policy and legal inconsistency and fragmentation has been exacerbated by the revocation of these planning benchmarks by new state governments in New South Wales and Queensland. At the same time, the issue of how to adapt existing coastal settlements—through protection, accommodation, or retreat—remains an intractable problem made harder by expectations of compensation and financial support for existing property owners. This chapter explores these issues and assesses the likely future of coastal climate change adaptation in Australia.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Jan McDonald
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2275243552