Climate Change

Climate change is a long-term significant change in ‘average weather’ that a given region experiences. It has the potential to have severe economic and non-economic impacts on Australian tourism destinations. Six major Australian tourism destinations have been reviewed to determine their degree of vulnerability, with four of these including protected areas; tropical North Queensland, Kakadu, the Victorian Alps, the Blue Mountains and the Margaret River region of south west Western Australia.

Potential impacts include increased frequency and intensity of ENEs, and environmental, economic, social and infrastructure impacts. Environmental impacts include ecosystem, and fire impacts, changes to hydrological systems, and alterations to the distribution and abundance of indigenous and invasive species (see Protected Areas: Buffering Nature Against Climate Change).

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND AUSTRALIAN TOURISM: A Research Bibliography

This research bibliography is about climate change impacts and responses in Australian tourism. It lists articles, reports, conference papers and website information published about climate change and Australian tourism from 1996 to 2010. It includes sections on climate change issues ...
GARNAUT CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE PAPER 1, 2011: Weighing the costs and benefits of climate change action

The Garnaut Climate Change Review—led by Professor Ross Garnaut—was first commissioned by Australia's Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments in 2007, to conduct an independent study of the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy. This paper focuses on five ...
GARNAUT CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE PAPER 2, 2011: Progress towards effective global action on climate change

The threat of climate change to prosperity in one country cannot be removed by the actions of that country alone. Effective action to moderate the risks of human-induced climate change requires large contributions to reductions in emissions from all major countries, ...
GARNAUT CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE PAPER 3, 2011: Global emissions trends

This Update paper re-examines likely trends in global emissions in the absence of effective mitigation and in the absence of major feedbacks from climate change to economic growth. It analyses changes in the variables affecting emissions growth (namely population, economic ...
GARNAUT CLIMATE CHANGE UPDATE PAPER 5, 2011: The Science of Climate Change
GREEN TOURISM FUTURES: Climate Change Responses by Australian Government Tourism Agencie

The National Climate Change Adaptation Framework identified tourism as one key sector vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Australia. This paper evaluates how nine government tourism agencies are responding to the issue of climate change in Australia. It ...