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

                                                             Noosa Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan



Resilience: The capacity of social, economic, and environmental systems to cope with a hazardous
event, trend, or disturbance, responding or reorganising in ways that maintain their essential
function, identity, and structure, while also maintaining the capacity for adaptation, learning, and
transformation.
Sea-level rise: The rise of global and local mean sea level caused by the expansion of the ocean as
it warms, and the transfer of water currently stored on land to the ocean, particularly from melting
glaciers and ice sheets. Sea levels are projected to rise disproportionally on a global scale with
regions closest to the equator seeing more rapid and extreme changes.
Trigger point (or triggers): A decision-point which initiates adaptive actions before coastal hazards
reach an adaptation-threshold beyond which undue harm occurs and costs of adaptation increase.
Triggers are preceded by signals that provide an early warning of the emergence of the trigger.




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