Land use planning, coastal inundation and coastal erosion in Tasmania

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This study seeks further understanding of how to use land use planning to improve the current Tasmanian practice in mitigating the impacts from coastal hazards and adapt sea level rise resulting from climate change. Coastal hazards include coastal inundation and coastal erosion, which under current climate change scenarios, will increasingly have impact on coastal communities through emergency events including storms or long-term coastal change though coastal retreat. Over long periods of time land use (and risk-based) planning allows people to alter the impact of change, from currently vulnerable settlement patterns to more resilient ones. The study focused on current practice in five Tasmanian local governments identified as those most vulnerable to coastal hazards: Break O'Day, Central Coast, Clarence, Kingborough and Waratah-Wynyard. In particular, and drawing on empirical data from those local governments, the research focuses on the interrelationships among planning, risk and eme

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