Assessing inundation damage and timing of adaptation: sea level rise and the complexities of land use in coastal communities

Lin, Brenda B.; Khoo, Yong Bing; Inman, Matthew; Wang, Chi-Hsiang; Tapsuwan, Sorada; Wang, Xiaoming

doi:10.1007/s11027-013-9448-0

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“…Most adaptation actions in these three states respond to temperature increases, climate change in general, sea-level rise, and increased frequency and intensity of severe weather events like cyclones. Sea-level rise is of particular interest to this region, due to the exposure of capital infrastructure to the sea and the risk of inundation, damage, and loss of habitable land [59]. The high volume of groundwork actions reported in this region is consistent with the findings of Bradley et al (2015), in which the majority of coastal local governments are either beginning to understand the implications of climate change or planning to adapt to its effects.…”

Section: Coastal Adaptation Is Prominent and Predominantly Addressed supporting

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How Is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?

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We develop and apply a systematic literature review methodology to identify and characterize the ways in which the peer-reviewed literature depicts how climate change adaptation is occurring in Australia. We reviewed the peer-reviewed, English-language literature between January 2005 and January 2018 for examples of documented human adaptation initiatives in Australia. Our results challenge previous assumptions that adaptation actions are not happening in Australia and describes adaptation processes that are underway. For the most part, actions can be described as preliminary or groundwork, with a particular focus on documenting stakeholder perspectives on climate change and attitudes towards adaptation, and modelling or scenario planning in the coastal zone, agriculture, and health sectors. Where concrete adaptations are reported, they are usually in the agricultural sector and are most common in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food basket. The findings of the review advance our understanding of adaptation to climate change as a process and the need to consider different stages in the process when tracking adaptation.

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confidence: 59%

How Is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?

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“…For example, United States of America (USA) dollars (US$) 14.5 billion is the budget allocated to protect New Orleans, Louisiana, USA against category 5 hurricanes (Burnett 2015), the Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (MOSE) project built to protect Venice, Italy against flooding is estimated at € 5.5 billion (Giovannini 2017), and The Netherlands spent € 8.9 billion from 1954 to 2008 in flood infrastructure (Aerts et al 2008). At a regional scale, sea level rise adaptation strategies have also been applied in Europe (Hinkel et al 2010), Brazil (Lacerda et al 2014), United States of America (USA) (Ashton et al 2008;Song et al 2018), Saudi Arabia (Babu et al 2012), Egypt (Frihy and El-Sayed 2013), Australia (Lin et al 2014), and Bahrain (Al-Jeneid et al 2007). If sea levels were to increase 5.3 m by 2300, assuming a Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) emissions scenario, 700 million people are expected to suffer from flooding events every year (Nicholls et al 2018).…”

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Reducing sea level rise with submerged barriers and dams in Greenland

Hunt

Byers

2018

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Sea levels have been rising at an increasing rate in the past decades, due to the increased ocean temperatures and glacier melt caused by global warming. The continued increase in sea levels will result in large-scale impacts in coastal areas as they are submerged by the sea. Locations not able to bear the costs of implementing protection and adaptation measures will have to be abandoned, resulting in social, economic, and environmental losses. The most important mitigation goal for sea level rise is to reduce or possibly revert carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. However, given the magnitude and long time lag between emissions and impacts, new adaptation measures to reduce sea level rise should be proposed, developed and if possible, implemented. This paper suggests that submerged barriers or dams built in front of ice sheets and glaciers would contribute to reducing the ice melt in Greenland. The ten proposed barriers or dams in this paper could prevent the contribution to sea level rise by up to 5.3 m at a cost of US$ 0.275 billion a year. This is much lower when compared to adaptation measures to sea level rise around the world estimated to be US$ 1.4 trillion a year by 2100.

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“…Most adaptation actions in these three states respond to temperature increases, climate change in general, sea-level rise and increased frequency and intensity of severe weather events like cyclones. Sea-level rise is of particular interest to this region, due to the exposure of capital infrastructure to the sea and the risk of inundation, damage, and loss of habitable land (Lin et al 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

How is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?

Pearce¹,

Rodríguez²,

Fawcett³

et al. 2018

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We develop and apply a systematic literature review methodology to identify and characterize the ways in which the peer-reviewed literature depicts how climate change adaptation is occurring in Australia. We reviewed the peer-reviewed, English-language literature between January 2005 and January 2018 for examples of documented adaptation actions. Our results challenge previous assumptions that adaptation action is not happening in Australia and describes adaptation processes that are underway. For the most part, actions can be described as preliminary or groundwork, with a particular focus on documenting stakeholder perspectives on climate change and adaptation, and modelling or scenario planning in the coastal zone, agriculture and health sectors. Where concrete adaptations are reported, they are usually in the agricultural sector and are most common in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’s food basket. The findings of the review advance our understanding of adaptation to climate change as a process and the need to consider different stages in the process when tracking adaptation.

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Assessing inundation damage and timing of adaptation: sea level rise and the complexities of land use in coastal communities

Cited by 31 publications

References 34 publications

How Is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?

How Is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?

Reducing sea level rise with submerged barriers and dams in Greenland

How is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?

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