Coastal management and the political-legal geographies of climate change adaptation in Australia

O’Donnell, Tayanah

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.03.022

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“…The growth of climate change adaptation scholarship and the increasing recognition of the urgency of adaptive response including that managed retreat is also a factor [55,56]. Siders [57,58] hones in on this and explains that managed retreat must be scaleable in order to be viable; barriers to implementation must be identified and therefore better understood; practitioners must learn from historical events; and consistent policy approaches within nation-state jurisdictions are essential (on this latter point, see also [14]). Some returned papers make the case for specific disciplinary interventions in managed retreat, for example geology [59], sociology [60], and architecture and design [61] but the overall trend is one that is focused on the activity of retreat itself.…”

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“…Retreat is a difficult, but a ‘must have’, in terms of design, process and conversations. Robust knowledge of the trade-offs and approaches in implementing managed or planned retreat is required to ensure that such retreat is undertaken in a way that nurtures ecosystems, is just and fair to the myriad of values attached to the location, and recognizes the highest and best use of the location at particular points in time [3,14,15]. It is also important to acknowledge the inherent difficulty of effectively implementing managed or planned retreat.…”

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“…Climate change adaptation literature and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have long recognized the environmental risks facing coastal locations and in doing so have concerned themselves with how to plan for such risks (e.g. [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]). Acknowledging that adaptive pathways planning for managed (and planned) retreat must be dynamic and iterative to be useful and responsive [15,[19][20][21][22], coastal adaptation has frequently and historically been framed as requiring 'protect, accommodate, retreat' options for developed coastlines.…”

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Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

O’Donnell

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Vulnerable locations, such as coastlines, are at a high risk of loss and damage. Such places will suffer deleterious impacts as climate change impacts are increasingly realized. As societies try to adapt to these impacts, managed or planned retreat—aimed at moving people and assets away from vulnerable locations—is gaining increased attention. Despite this increased attention, systematic literature reviews of the retreat literature remain scarce. This paper undertakes such review and uncovers a marked increase in retreat scholarly research papers in the past 5 years. An analysis of 135 managed and planned retreat journal articles is completed. Findings include a strong emphasis on regional or local case studies exploring governance, policy or institutional settings and levers across a range of geographies. Property rights and market interventions, such as compensation schemes, evidence the prevalence of neoliberal predilections. This emphasizes the importance of renewed engagement with political economy scholarship vis-à-vis climate change adaptation, also supported by the sharp increase in the evidenced social and environmental justice impacts. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems’.

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Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

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2022

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“…Governance of natural hazards was not addressed by the Constitution and, as such, coastal protection remains a residual power of state governments [36]. As a result, the federal government, which retains the vast majority of tax-raising capability, has limited involvement in coastal protection [37,38], consisting of coordination of national disaster management and information provision. State governments set coastal management policy within their jurisdiction, while local governments are responsible for implementing land use planning, disaster management, and coastal management (including management of coastal hazards).…”

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“…in coastal protection [37,38], consisting of coordination of national disaster management and information provision. State governments set coastal management policy within their jurisdiction, while local governments are responsible for implementing land use planning, disaster management, and coastal management (including management of coastal hazards).…”

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Using Historical Responses to Shoreline Change on Australia’s Gold Coast to Estimate Costs of Coastal Adaptation to Sea Level Rise

Ware

Buckwell

Tomlinson

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Climate change impacts, sea level rise, and changes to the frequency and intensity of storms, in particular, are projected to increase the coastal land and assets exposed to coastal erosion. The selection of appropriate adaptation strategies requires an understanding of the costs and how such costs will vary by the magnitude and timing of climate change impacts. By drawing comparisons between past events and climate change projections, it is possible to use experience of the way societies have responded to changes to coastal erosion to inform the costs and selection of adaptation strategies at the coastal settlement scale. The experience of implementing a coastal protection strategy for the Gold Coast’s southern beaches between 1964 and 1999 is compiled into a database of the timing, units, and cost of coastal protection works. Records of the change to shoreline position and characteristics of local beaches are analysed through the Bruun model to determine the implied sea level rise at the time each of the projects was completed. Finally, an economic model updates the project costs for the point in the future based on the projected timing of sea level rise and calculates a net present value (NPV) for implementing a protection strategy, per km, of sandy beach shoreline against each of the four representative concentration pathways (RCP) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to 2100. A key finding of our study is the significant step-up in expected costs of implementing coastal protection between RCP 2.6 and RCP 8.5—from $573,792/km to $1.7 million/km, or a factor of nearly 3, using a social discount rate of 3%. This step-up is by a factor of more than 6 at a social discount rate of 1%. This step-up in projected costs should be of particular interest to agencies responsible for funding and building coastal defences.

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Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research

Hoddy

Halliday

Ensor

et al. 2023

WIREs Climate Change

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While climate change adaptation research has increasingly focused on aspects of culture, a systematic treatment of the role of legal culture in how communities respond to climate risk has yet to be produced. This is despite the fact that law and legal authority are implicated in most, if not all, of the ways in which actors seek to reduce the risks posed to communities by climate change. Using a scoping review methodology, this article examines the intersection of climate change adaptation and legal culture in existing research. Overall, we find that the significance of legal culture for adaptation actions has been under-explored.Yet, it is also clear that a focus on legal culture holds significant promise for our understanding of climate change adaptation. We set out a research agenda for the field, highlighting the ways in which a focus on legal culture may enrich existing key themes within climate change adaptation research.

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Coastal management and the political-legal geographies of climate change adaptation in Australia

Cited by 36 publications

References 42 publications

Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

Using Historical Responses to Shoreline Change on Australia’s Gold Coast to Estimate Costs of Coastal Adaptation to Sea Level Rise

Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research

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