The RMIT University Climate Change Adaptation Program (CCAP) has four integrated program activities each containing a range of supporting research projects.
We recognise that the adaptation issues that are being faced throughout the world are massive. No one institution has all the expertise required to address all the interrelated issues. The information available on adaptation related issues and responses is growing exponentially. Finding time required to stay up to date is challenging.
To support researchers and to increase our ability to respond to adaptation needs quickly, we are undertaking the following two projects which do not fit within the above four categories.
AdaptNet
AdaptNet is a free weekly report on climate change adaptation issues.
This report makes it easy for those interested in climate change adaptation issues to keep up to date. Read the latest information on adaptation strategies, measures, tools, research and analysis, best practice and implementation.
Each edition of AdaptNet contains links to 5 reports, information on 1 conference/event and occasional policy forum essays.
AdaptNet is currently available in Mandarin Chinese (中文版), English, Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) and Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt). For more information contact: Mr. Saleem Janjua.
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Assessment of CCA actual and latent research capacities
This project focuses on identifying climate change adaptation related expertise throughout RMIT University and The University of Melbourne. We intend to expand this to other institutions in the future. Data on researchers and their expertise are being collated into a repository that can be searched by name or issue. Therefore if a need arises to find experts in sea level rise, green building and infrastructure design, disease control or any of the many other adaptation related issues, we can type in those keywords, search, and find details of experts in those fields. The database provides us with a summary of their expertise, their past research and publications, plus their contact details.
This work will be further expanded to identify capacity clusters and relevant experts within those clusters. A capacity cluster is a grouping of interrelated issues that we can expect to see arise in relation to climate change. Examples of capacity clusters.
For more information contact: Dr. Jodi-Anne Smith.
