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

Tristan Pearce; Evelyn H Rodriguez Mejia; David Fawcett; James D Ford

doi:10.3390/su10093280

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

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

Tristan Pearce, Evelyn H Rodriguez Mejia, David Fawcett and James D Ford

Sustainability, Vol.10(9), 3280

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093280

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Abstract

adaptation

adaptive capacity

adaptation tracking

Australia

climate change

concrete action

developed nation

groundwork action

vulnerability

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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Title: How Is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?
Authors: Tristan Pearce (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Evelyn H Rodriguez Mejia (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
David Fawcett (Author) - University of Guelph, Canada
James D Ford (Author) - University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Publication details: Sustainability, Vol.10(9), 3280; 14
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.3390/su10093280
ISSN: 2071-1050
Copyright note: Copyright © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451442802621
Output Type: Journal article

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