Climate Adaptation 2014
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Early Career & Student Workshop Registration Open including Morning Tea
Chair: Mark Stafford Smith
Postgraduate Student Workshop
Chairs: Mark Stafford Smith & Johanna Mustelin
Lunch
Postgraduate Student Workshop (cont)
Chairs: Mark Stafford Smith & Johanna Mustelin
Afternoon Tea
Postgraduate Student Workshop (cont)
Chairs: Mark Stafford Smith & Johanna Mustelin
Conference Registration Opens
Welcome Reception
Registration Open
Opening Plenary - International Perspectives on Climate Adaptation
Chair: Ned Pankhurst
Morning Tea
Plenary 2 - How is business responding to climate change?
Chair: Mara Bun
Lunch
Showcase Session 1 - Now versus Later - Making decisions in the face of climate change (URPS and SEED Consulting) - All Welcome
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Panel Session 1 - Creating and sustaining value in light of climate change: Insights from food and beverage value chains
Chair: Lilly Lim-Camacho
Panel Session 2 - Vulnerable and disadvantaged communities
Chair: Bridget Tehan
Panel Session 3 - Is cost-benefit analysis any use for informing adaptation decisions?
Chair: Steve Hatfield-Dodds
Panel Session 4 - How can we manage the risks of flooding related to climate change?
Chair: Jamie Pittock
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Panel Session 5 - Delivering on the Ground Actions: Moving out of the Planning Phase
Chair: Michelle English
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Afternoon Tea
Parallel Session 1 - Business as usual? Productivity and prosperity in a changed climate
Chair: Mark Baker-Jones
Parallel Session 2 - Communicating climate science and adaptation: building support for action
Chair: Leanne Webb
Parallel Session 3 - High rise, high risk: How sea level rise will affect Australia's coastline
Chair: Megan Saunders
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Parallel Session 4 - Frameworks for enabling adaptation
Chair: Christopher Lee
Parallel Session 5 - Planning for adaptation in natural resource management
Chair: Sarah Boulter
Parallel Session 6 - Climate adaptation engineering for built infrastructure
Chair: Mark Stewart
Short Break
Synopsis Session 3 - Communicating climate science and adaptation: building support for action
Chair: Jean Palutikof
Synopsis Session 1 - Business & Economics
Chair: Karl Mallon
Synopsis Session 2 - Building resilient communities and community services
Chair: Colette Mortreux
Synopsis Session 4 - Adapting coastal management
Chair: David Rissik
Synopsis Session 5 - Frameworks, policy and regulation for climate adaptation
Chair: James Duggie
Synopsis Session 6 - Planning for adaptation in natural resource management
Chair: Barton Loechel
Poster Session
Registration Open
Poster Breakfast
Parallel Session 7 - Business as usual? Productivity and prosperity in a changed climate
Chair: Ian Carruthers
Parallel Session 8 - Communicating climate science and adaptation
Chair: Celeste Young
Parallel Session 9 - Adapting coastal management
Chair: David Rissik
Parallel Session 10 - Barriers and enablers to local adaptation
Chair: Mark Stafford Smith
Parallel Session 11 - Adapting water resource management
Chair: Paul Hardisty
Parallel Session 12 - Urban infrastructure and livelihoods
Chair: Adam Gray
Morning Tea
Panel Session 6 - Business & Markets
Chair: Karl Mallon
Panel Session 7 - Communication - uncertainty is irrelevant
Chair: James Duggie
Panel Session 8 - The IPCC: after the Fifth Assessment, what next?
Chair: Jean Palutikof
Panel Session 9 - Transformational adaptation: Why, when and how?
Chair: Mark Howden
Panel Session 10 - NSW Adaptation Research Hub - Turning Research into Action
Chair: Christopher Lee
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Lunch
Showcase Session 2 - AdaptInfrastructure briefing
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Adaptation Pathways Community
Chair: Mark Siebentritt
Plenary 3 - Limits to adaptation
Chair: Lesley Hughes
Afternoon Tea
Parallel Session 13 - Economics to support adaptation decision-making
Chair: Russell Gorddard
Parallel Session 14 - Building resilience of communities and community services
Chair: Richard Thornton
Parallel Session 15 - The role of traditional knowledge in adaptation
Chair: John Rainbird
Parallel Session 16 - Adapting coastal management
Chair: Jean Palutikof
Parallel Session 17 - Planning for adaptation in natural resource management
Chair: Lilly Lim-Camacho
Parallel Session 18 - Urban infrastructure and livelihoods
Chair: Silvia Serrao-Neumann
Short Break
Synopsis Session 7 - Building resilience of communities and community services
Chair: Guy Barnett
Synopsis Session 8 - Tools and knowledge to support adaptation
Chair: Judy Lawrence
Synopsis Session 9 - Health, heat and extremes
Chair: Ros Taplin
Synopsis Session 10 - Frameworks, policy and regulation
Chair: Rohan Hamden
Synopsis Session 11 - Planning for adaptation in natural resource management
Chair: Craig James
Synopsis Session 12 - Urban infrastructure and livelihoods
Chair: Ron Cox
Poster Session & Pre-Dinner Drinks
Conference Dinner
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Registration Open
Plenary Session 4 - Adaptation from catchment to coast - complex decision making
Chair: Barbara Norman
Workshop: Using MCAS-S in NRM - Hand On! Lessons from the WA NRM Planning for Climate Change Experience (Prebooked delegates only)
Morning Tea
Parallel Session 19 - Food security in a changing world
Chair: Mark Howden
Parallel Session 20 - Engaging with stakeholders
Chair: Steve Turton
Parallel Session 21 - Tools and knowledge to support adaptation
Chair: Hartmut Fuenfgeld
Parallel Session 22 - Climate extremes and disaster management
Chair: David King
Parallel Session 23 - Frameworks, policy and regulation for adaptation
Chair: Lesley Andrew
Parallel Session 24 - Approaches for adapting and transforming conservation management in a changing climate
Chair: Alistair Hobday
Lunch
Birds of a Feather Session 1 - Adaptation in the Pacific Island region
Chair: Brendan Mackey
Birds of a Feather Session 2 - Natural Resource Managers
Chair: Rohan Hamden
Birds of a Feather Session 3 - Effective communication
Chair: Jean Palutikof
Workshop Session - AdaptInfrastructure Training Session
Parallel Session 25 - Agriculture
Chair: Andrew Ash
Parallel Session 26 - Building resilience of communities and community services
Chair: Kimberley Reis
Parallel Session 27 - Tools and knowledge to support adaptation
Chair: Liese Coulter
Parallel Session 28 - Climate extremes and disaster management
Chair: John Handmer
Parallel Session 29 - Frameworks, policy and regulation for adaptation
Chair: Tim Smith
Parallel Session 30 - Infrastructure, communities and livelihoods
Chair: Alianne Rance
Short Break
Plenary 5 - Future Challenges for Adaptation
Chair: Peter Hayman