Sydney Coastal Councils - System Approach to Regional Climate Change. Adaptation Strategies in Metropolises.

Project Publications:

2008

Preston, B.L., Smith, T., Brooke, C., Gorddard, R., Measham, T., Withycombe, G., McInnes, K., Abbs, D., Beveridge, B., and Morrison, C. (2008). Mapping Climate Change Vulnerability in the Sydney Coastal Councils Group. Prepared for the Sydney Coastal Councils Group and the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change by the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, Canberra.

 

Smith, T.F., Preston, B., Gorddard, R., Brooke, C., Measham, T.G., Withycombe, G., Beveridge, B. and Morrison, C. (2008), Regional Workshops Synthesis Report: Sydney Coastal Councils’ Vulnerability to Climate Change: Part 1, prepared for the Sydney Coastal Councils Group, ISBN: 978-0-9775170-2-2.

 

Withycombe, G.  Beveridge, B.,  Preston, B. , Smith, T. F. , Brooke, C. , Measham, T.G. , Gorddard, R.  and Morrison, C. (2008).  Improving Local Governments’ Capacity to Adapt to Coastal Climate Change at a Local and Regional Scale, NSW Coastal Conference, Wollongong November 4-7 2008,

 

Measham, T.G., Preston, B., Beveridge, B., Withycombe, G., Morrison, C., Smith, T.F., Brooke, C., Gorddard, R., Abbs, D. , and McInnes (2008) Local councils and climate change: a process for assisting adaptation in Sydney, Australia. Poster accepted Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Conference, Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation? 7 & 8 February 2008, Royal Geographical Society, London

 

Preston, B., Smith, T.F., Brooke, C., Gorddard, R., Measham, T.G., Withycombe, G., Beveridge, B., Morrison, C., McInnes, K., and Abbs, D. (2008), Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping as a Stakeholder Engagement Tool: Case Study from Sydney Australia. Paper presented at Coastal Cities Summit 2008, Values and Vulnerabilities, November 17 – 20 St. Petersburg, Florida USA.

 

Preston B.L., Brooke C., Measham, T.G. et al (2008) Igniting change in local government: lessons learned from a bushfire vulnerability assessment. Mitigation Adaptation Strategies Global Change, in press.

 

Smith, T.F., Brooke, C., Preston, B. Gorddard, R., Abbs, D. McInnes, K., Withycombe, G., and Morrison, C. (2008). Managing coastal vulnerability: new solutions for local government. In Integrated Coastal Zone Management, E. Dahl, E. Moksness, and J Støttrup (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, in press. 

 

2007

Smith, T.F., Brooke, C., Preston, B., Gorddard, R., Abbs, D., McInnes, K., Withycombe, G. and Morrison, C., (2007). Managing for climate variability in the Sydney region. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50, 109-113, ISSN 0749.0208

 

Preston, B.L., Abbs, D., Beveridge, B., Brooke, C., Gorddard, R., Measham, T.G., Hunt, G., Justus, M., Kinrade, P., Macadam, I., McInnes, K., Morrison, C., Smith, T.F., Withycombe, G. (2007). Spatial approaches for assessing vulnerability and consequences in climate change assessments.  In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, ISBN: 978-0-9758400-4-7, pp. 261-267. 

 

Preston, B., Beveridge, B.,  Withycombe, G., Morrison, C., Smith, T.F. , Brooke, C., Gorddard, R., Measham, T., Abbs, D., and McInnes, K. (2007). Integrated approaches to regional climate change adaptation strategies: project methodology, results and key lessons learnt. New South Wales Coastal Conference, Yamba, NSW, 7-9 November, 2007.

 

2006

Withycombe, G., Smith, T.F., Brooke, C., Preston, B., Gorddard, R., Abbs, D., and McInnes, K. and Morrison, C.(2006). Managing for climate variability in the Sydney region – issues, needs and new solutions for local government. NSW Coastal Conference, Coffs Harbour , NSW, November, 2006

 

2005

Smith, T.F., Preston, B.L., McInnes, K., and Withycombe, G. (2005). A systems approach to coastal research and management. 15th NSW Coastal Conference 8-11 November, 2005.