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Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef: Scoping Ecological, Institutional and Economic Limits
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Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef: Scoping Ecological, Institutional and Economic Limits

L S Evans, Pedro Fidelman, C Hicks, C Morgan, A Perry and R Tobin
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
2012
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climate change Great Barrier Reef
The National Climate Change Research Facility (NCCARF) is undertaking a program of Synthesis and Integrative Research to synthesise existing and emerging national and international research on climate change impacts and adaptation. The purpose of this program is to provide decision-makers with information they need to manage the risks of climate change. This report on "Limits to climate change adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef: scoping ecological and social limits" forms part of a series of studies/reports commissioned by NCCARF that look at the limits to adaptation. The notion of 'limits to adaptation' is fundamentally concerned with identifying the thresholds at which actions to adapt cease to reduce vulnerability. Much of the research on adaptation avoids the question of what adaptation cannot achieve. It is therefore implied by omission that adaptation can avoid all climate impacts. Yet this is clearly not going to be the case for many systems, sectors and places at even modest rates of warming, let alone at the more rapid rates of warming that now seem almost inevitable. Understanding the limits to adaptation is an emerging frontier of climate change research. It is important for decision making about adaptation for three reasons.

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