2021-11-15 GC Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan

          Noosa Shire Council




  Appendix 1: Glossary
  Accept: An adaptation approach that recognises the validity of climate science and the intensifying
  threats of climate change, subsequently acknowledging there is a need to implement adaptive
  strategies.
  Accommodate: An adaptation approach that seeks to allow the continued or extended use of
  vulnerable areas by reducing the sensitivity and/or exposure to sea level rise and other coastal
  hazards. For example, elevated floor requirements, increased setback requirements, hazard
  insurance, improved drainage and the preparation of emergency evacuation plans. Accommodation
  measures are often cost effective in a transitional strategy and are particularly suitable for areas with
  modest to higher value assets where exposure to climate change risk is low to medium.
  Adaptation pathways: A series of adaptation choices involving trade-offs between short-term
  and long-term goals and values. These are processes of deliberation to identify solutions that are
  meaningful to people in the context of their daily lives and to avoid potential maladaptation.
  Avoid: An adaptation approach where planned actions are taken to avoid the impacts of climate
  change and coastal hazards on assets. For example, to avoid the impacts of coastal and estuarine
  flooding and inundation, building codes and regulations can be implemented. Early acceptance of
  climate change impacts is needed so that planners and decision makers have sufficient time to adjust
  legislation and building codes.
  Carbon Reduction (emissions reduction): Human interventions to reduce the sources or enhance the
  sinks of greenhouse gases.
  Climate: What we experience as the day-to-day state of the atmosphere at a particular place and
  time regarding heat, rain, wind, cloudiness, humidity etc. is the ‘weather’ and it is recorded at hourly
  or daily timeframes. Climate is the weather of a particular place averaged over a period of time, most
  often 30 years (though sometimes longer).
  Climate Change: A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g. using statistical
  tests) by changes in the mean and/or variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended
  period.
  Defend: An adaptation approach where actions are taken to physically protect assets. See protect.
  Greenhouse Gas: Gases in the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb infrared
  radiation and trap the heat from the sun, contributing to the greenhouse effect (the warming of
  Earth’s surface and the air above it).
  Maladaptation: Actions that may, as an unintended consequence, lead to increased risk of adverse
  climate-related outcomes, including via increased GHG emissions, increased vulnerability to climate
  change, or diminished welfare, now or in the future.
  Protect: An adaptation approach which involves the continuation of use of vulnerable areas and
  assets from inundation and sea level rise by using hard or soft defensive measures. Hard defensive
  measures include sea walls, breakwaters, storm tide barriers; and ‘soft’ defensive measures include
  beach nourishment, dune management and restoration.




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