How the Great Barrier Reef and its Industries Can Adapt to Climate Change: Some Scenarios

L S Evans; Pedro Fidelman; C Hicks; A Perry; R Tobin

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How the Great Barrier Reef and its Industries Can Adapt to Climate Change: Some Scenarios

L S Evans, Pedro Fidelman, C Hicks, A Perry and R Tobin

2011

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climate change

Great Barrier Reef

In this report we draw four alternative future scenarios - snapshots of possible futures - which are designed to help the communities, businesses and industries involved in Australia's Great Barrier Reef to understand and discuss how climate change may affect the Reef and those who depend on it. These scenarios are created by combining best-case/worst-case climate outlooks, with best-case/worst-case adaptation on the part of both humans and the environment. These are not forecasts of what will happen: rather they allow us to explore what might happen if we act more or less effectively in response to moderate or more extreme climate change. This, in turn, will help us to envision and design a safer, more prosperous and more sustainable future, both for the Reef and for ourselves.

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Title: How the Great Barrier Reef and its Industries Can Adapt to Climate Change: Some Scenarios
Authors: L S Evans (Author) - James Cook University
Pedro Fidelman (Author) - James Cook University
C Hicks (Author)
A Perry (Author)
R Tobin (Author)
Publication details: 28
Date published: 2011
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449895202621
Output Type: Report

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