Adapting to climate change publications and resources

Latest releases

• Climate Compass - A climate risk management framework for Commonwealth agencies - 2018

Books and reports

• Adaptation of Melbourne's metropolitan rail network in response to climate change - 2012
• Australia's biodiversity and climate change - A strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's biodiversity to climate change - 2013
• Climate Adaptation Outlook - 2013
• Climate change impact and risk management - A guide for business and government - 2006
• Climate change risks to Australia's coasts: a first pass national assessment - 2009
• Climate change risks to coastal buildings and infrastructure - A supplement to the first pass national assessment - 2011
• Climate Compass - A climate risk management framework for Commonwealth agencies - 2018
• Coastal climate change risk - Legal and policy responses in Australia - 2011
• Coastal inundation at Narrabeen Lagoon - Optimising adaptation investment - 2013
• Develoing a national coastal adaptation agenda - 2010
• East Coast Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery - vulnerability to climate change impacts and adaptation response options - 2009
• Economic framework for analysis of climate change adaptation options - 2012
• Engaging our Pacific neighbours on climate change: Australia's approach - 2009
• Local council risk of liability in the face of climate change – Resolving uncertainties - 2011
• National Climate Change Adaptation Framework - 2007
• National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy - 2015
• The role of regulation in facilitating or constraining adaptation to climate change for Australian infrastructure - 2012
• Securing long-term water supply in a time of climatic uncertainty - Prioritising adaptation investment - 2012

National vulnerability assessments

• Australia's biodiversity and climate change - A strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's biodiversity to climate change - 2013
• Kakadu: Vulnerability to climate change impacts - 2012
• Implications of climate change for Australia's World Heritage properties - 2009
• Interactions between climate change, fire regimes and biodiversity in Australia: A preliminary assessment - 2009
• Implications of climate change for Australia's National Reserve System - 2008

Productivity Commission inquiry into Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation

• Australian Government response to the Productivity Commission inquiry into Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation - March 2013
• The department's submission in response to the Productivity Commission draft report: Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation - July 2012
• The department's submission to the Productivity Commission, December 2011.

Pacific adaptation knowledge base

The Pacific Adaptation Strategy Assistance Program supported several regional and country-based assessments of climate change impacts and potential adaptation measures. These assessments covered a range of sectors: adaptive capacity and governance, coastal management, food security, health, infrastructure and water security.

Regional reports

Adaptive capacity and governance

• Climate change adaptation in the Pacific: Making informed choices (2011)
• Pacific adaptation to climate change: Past approaches and considerations for the future (2011)
• Pacific Adaptive Capacity Analysis Framework (PACAF): An adaptive capacity assessment of 12 local communities in the Pacific Islands (2011)

Coastal management

• Coastal erosion and inundation due to climate change in the Pacific and East Timor (2011)
• Anticipated climate change impact on the coastal protection role provided by coastal ecosystems in the Pacific and East Timor (2011)
• The Wind-wave climate of the Pacific Ocean (PDF - 3.59 MB)

Food security

• Food security in the Pacific and East Timor and its vulnerability to climate change (PDF - 3.07 MB)

Health

• Overview of climate change impacts on human health in the Pacific Region (2011)

Infrastructure

• Infrastructure and climate change in the Pacific (2011)

Country-based reports

Cook Islands – governance

• Mangoes in July: Report on Cook Islands Public Service Climate Change Functional Review and Institutional Structure Development (2011)

Fiji – adaptive capacity

• The adaptive capacity of three Fijian Village communities: Bavu, Druadrua and Navukailangi (2011)

Samoa – food security

• Assessing the social and economic value of germplasm and crop improvement as a climate change adaptation strategy: Samoa and Vanuatu Case Studies (2011)

Solomon Islands – adaptive capacity and infrastructure

• Building social and ecological resilience to climate change in Roviana, Solomon Islands (2012)
• The adaptive capacity of the Pileni Island community, Viakau Ward, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands (2011)
• Making informed adaptation choices: A case study of climate proofing of road infrastructure in the Solomon Islands (2011)

Timor-Leste – groundwater

• The vulnerability of groundwater resources to climate change in Timor-Leste (2012)

Tuvalu – adaptive capacity

• Adaptive capacity in Funafuti and Lofeagai communities, Tuvalu (2011)

Vanuatu – adaptive capacity and food security

• Adaptive capacity in the Tegua Island community, Torres Islands, Torba Province, Vanuatu (2011)
• Assessing the social and economic value of germplasm and crop improvement as a climate change adaptation strategy: Samoa and Vanuatu case studies (2011)