Hunter & Central Coasts, New South Wales—Vulnerability to climate change impacts

Contents

Copyright

Executive summary

1. Introduction

2. The present landscape

3. Forecasting change and vulnerability

4. Economic vulnerability

5. Social vulnerability

6. Summary, discussion and next steps

Bibliography

Appendix A: Cumulative impacts

Appendix B: Landscape Spatial Analysis Methodology

Appendix C: The social survey

Appendix D: Risk perception survey

Hunter & Central Coasts, New South Wales—Vulnerability to climate change impacts

Report to the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Australia

The Institute for Rural Futures was commissioned to conduct an assessment of the vulnerability of the NSW Central Coast and Lower Hunter region to the impacts of climate change. The primary objective of the study was to undertake an initial, broadly interdisciplinary, appraisal of the vulnerability of existing and future residential, industrial, commercial and public infrastructure as well as natural ecosystems, to the impact of sea level rise, storm surge and intense rainfall in the Central and Hunter Coast region.

Date Released: 20/10/2011
Categories associated with this item are: Adaptation, Science