2008

AdaptNet for 2008. AdaptNet is a free weekly report produced by RMIT University Global Cities Institute's Climate Change Adaptation Working Group.

AdaptNet for 19 August 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-08-17 17:00

Actions by Victorian (Australia) Local Governments; Climate Change, Energy Security and a Third Industrial Revolution; India Releases First National Plan on Climate Change; Adaptation and Development – A Continuum of Approaches; Natural Disasters and Children; Consultancy Position – Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network.

AdaptNet for 12 August 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-08-10 18:18

Energy and Equity – Preparing Households for Climate Change; Key Challenges Facing China - Urbanization; Methods and Tools - Uncertainties for Adaptation Planning; Development Futures in the Light of Climate Change; Food Security, Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction; Climate Risk Case Studies – Expression of Interest (EOI).

AdaptNet for 5 August 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-08-03 19:47

Health Impacts and Adaptation Strategies - Western Australia; Urban Growth Management – Quito, Xi’an and Hyderabad; Architectural Principles for International Transport; Climate Change and Sustainable Development – Asia Pacific; Community Based Technology Solutions; Climate Risk Management for Energy Sector - Workshop; Policy Forum: Mainstreaming Biodiversity within Climate Change Adaptation.

AdaptNet for 29 July 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-07-30 20:37

Impact Assessment for Exceptional Climatic Events - Drought; Lessons Learned from the UK 2007 Floods; Is the Climate Sensitivity Even More Uncertain? Women Pay the Price of Climate Change; Human Adaptation to Climate Change in the Amazon; Global Commerce, Energy, Minerals and Environment Conference.

AdaptNet for 22 July 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-07-20 18:39

Impacts on Settlements in Western Port, Australia; Strategic Environmental Assessment in Germany; China's Climate Change Policy; Adaptation, Adaptive Capacity and Development Policy and Practice; Empowering Children to Act on Climate Change; Workshop on Climate Change in South-Eastern European Countries.

AdaptNet for 15 July 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-07-13 19:33

Australian Energy Policy; Urban Health Vulnerabilities; Core Elements for a Future Climate Regime; Gender, Climate Change and Human Security; Adaptive Responses in the Arctic; Post-2012 Burden Sharing Symposium: New Zealand

AdaptNet for 8 July 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-07-09 17:30

Climate Change and Regional NRM Bodies - Australia; Sustainable Urban Infrastructure - A View to 2025; Post-2012 Climate Regime: Canadian Perspectives; Estimating the Economic Cost of Sea-Level Rise; Children’s Role in Climate Change Adaptation; Symposium on Food and Water Sustainability in Asia 2008; Policy Forum: How to Create Exponential Decline in Car Use in Australian Cities.

AdaptNet for 1 July 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-06-29 17:13

Climate Change in the Northern Territory of Australia; A Three-Pronged Approach for Climate Change Adaptation; Climate Change and Forced Migration; Economic Models and Climate Change Policy Debate; Rising Oil Prices: Options for Asia-Pacific Region; UK Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Conference.

AdaptNet for 24 June 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-06-22 21:16

A More Resilient Australia; Adaptation in Sweden; Addressing Climate Change in Oregon, USA; Asia Pacific Energy Security; Integrating Adaptation into Local Government; Special Paper Competition - Harvard University Project; Policy Forum: Effective Use of Climate Science to Improve Adaptation in Africa

AdaptNet for 17 June 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-06-16 00:25

Australia in 2020; Climate Change Impacts on US Transportation; Key Elements of a Global Climate Policy; Security Implications of Climate Change for West Africa; Adaptation in India; Climate Change and Global Warming Conference in Germany.

AdaptNet for 10 June 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-06-09 05:36

Climate Risk and Industry Adaptation - Murray Darling Basin; Climate Change Best Practices Framework - California; Climate Change Adaptation - Where Do We Go from Bali? Social-Ecological Change: Transitions and Resilience Approaches; Oxfam Warns of Worsening Livelihoods; Call for Book Chapters: Climate Change Adaptation.

AdaptNet for 3 June 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-06-01 20:30

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change; Climate Change and Urban Children; Role of Adaptation in Climate Change Policy; Tropical Forestry and Climate Change; Climate Change Adaptation and Poverty Reduction; Coastal Zone Asia Pacific Conference - 2008; The Copenhagen Legal Instrument for Adaptation

AdaptNet for 27 May 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-05-25 18:35

Professional development in Australia; Adapting uncertainty-management methods; Future planning in Canada; Global crop genetic resources; Climate mapping tool for SERVIR; International Conference on EcoBalance; AdaptNet Policy Forum: Science Drowns at Land's End.

AdaptNet for 20 May 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-05-18 18:16

Australia’s Human Rights Obligations in Climate Change Responses; Climate Change and Coastal Cities - Mombasa, Kenya; Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment - India; Socioeconomic Adaptation Strategies to Extreme Events in Europe; Climate Change Impacts - Indigenous and Traditional Peoples; Adaptation to Climate Change in Water Sector - Workshop; The Resilience of Indigenous Australians to Climate Change.

AdaptNet for 13 May 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-05-18 17:34

Human Health Impacts of Climate Change for Australia; Philanthropy's Role in the Fight against Global Warming; Climate Change Adaptation in Post-2012 Architecture; Nuclear Power and Energy Security; Mainstreaming Adaptation into Official Development Assistance; Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands; Systems Approach to Regional Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Australian Metropolises

AdaptNet for 6 May 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-05-04 22:19

Climate change policy in Victoria, Australia; Retrofitting homes for climate change impacts; Towards a meaningful treaty on climate change; The case for business adaptation; Community vulnerability assessment of Taber, Alberta; International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses.

AdaptNet for 29 April 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-04-27 18:37

Climate change implications for Australian protected areas; Interdependencies of urban impacts and adaptation actions in Boston; Significance of the 2007 Bali Conference; UK Government’s position on the economics of nuclear power; Indian multi-tiered governance and climate change adaptation; Applied Energy Conference (ICAE 09) - Hong Kong.

AdaptNet for 22 April 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-04-20 19:29

Adapting health facilities to climate change – NSW, Australia; What the design industry can do; Flood management in Thailand; Perceptions of environmental risks in Mozambique; Handbook of vulnerability and adaptation assessment tools; A Changing Coast: Challenge the Environmental Policies (LITTORAL 2008).

AdaptNet for 15 April 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-04-13 18:06

Climate change implications for Australia's National Reserves; Visualization of climate change effects on urban areas; Mainstreaming adaptation into Indian Disaster Management; Organic Agriculture as an adaptation and mitigation strategy; UK logal government track record; Interdisciplinary Climate Change Symposium.

AdaptNet for 8 April 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-04-06 19:03

Adapting agriculture to climate change; Health, environmental challenges and urban development; Impressions from the Bali Climate Change Conference 2007; Climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessment in China; Community-based disaster management in Bangladesh; Adaptation of forests to changing climate

AdaptNet for 1 April 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-03-30 22:30

Climate Change and Public Policy; Implications for Urban Transport Systems; India's Vulnerability to Climate Hazards; Adaptation in the Water Sector; Impact on International Security; All Our Futures conference

AdaptNet for 18 March 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-03-16 16:24

Reduced water availability in Australian Murray Darling Basin; ADAPT – a screening and design tool; Reconciling Asian developmental priorities and global climate interests; Forest ecosystems; Drought risks in Vietnam; Coastal Cities Summit.

AdaptNet for 11 March 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-03-09 16:54

Australia’s emissions trading scheme; Urban resilience research; Scenarios for energy demand; Economic assessment of adaptation strategies in Italy; Practical steps and strategies for local communities; Digital Earth Summit on Geoinformatics.

AdaptNet for 4 March 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-03-02 13:06

Assessment of the Stern Review methodology; Rising flood threat to Asian cities; Regional impacts of climate change in the United States; Media communication lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; Post-Kyoto strategies; and call for papers on climate change and ecological restoration.

AdaptNet for 26 February 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-02-24 15:26

Australian cities response to climate change; Future of renewable energy; cultural understandings of climate; cost of climate change in the Mediterranean and south-eastern Europe; Recent development in China’s climate change policy; Bridging the Gap conference.

AdaptNet for 19 February 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-02-17 17:17

Climate Change in Rural Australia; Climate change impacts on cities; Climate change and trace gases; Climate change and human development; Adaptive governance of the water sector in South Asia; Better Air Quality Workshop.

AdaptNet for 12 February 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-02-10 14:44

Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6); Drinking water systems in the USA; Current approaches to measuring vulnerability; Malaysian national response to climate change; Livestock choice in Africa; Fifth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability.

AdaptNet for 5 February 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-02-03 14:21

Fire Weather in Southeast Australia; Urban Water Supply in California; National Security and Climate Change; Planned Adaptation to Climate Change; Impact on Site Specific Technologies (SSTs); Short Course in Climate Change Adaptation and Development.

AdaptNet for 29 January 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-01-27 21:13

Australian Emissions Targets; US Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations; Climate change and security in Africa; The role of the finance sector; An integrated development-oriented approach to climate change issues; World Wind Energy Conference.

AdaptNet for 22 January 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-01-20 15:23

Evidence of accelerated climate change; Implications of the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework; Current status of disaster planning in Pakistan; Flaws in simple climate-economy models; Global Environment Facility not adequate; and the Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management Conference

AdaptNet for 15 January 2008 — by Jonathan O'Donnell — last modified 2008-01-13 18:27

Coastal Erosion in New South Wales, Australia; Municipal Water Resource Management in Northern Cape, South Africa; Insurance industry response to climate change; Economic impact of inaction on climate change; Disaster risk reduction in schools; Summer Institute in Advanced Coastal Management