Climate impacts and adaptation in Australian mining communities: industry and local government views and activities - 2013 follow-up survey

[摘要] This document reports the findings of two surveys conducted simultaneously in Australia in early 2013, one of mining companies and the other of local government authorities, investigating their perceptions and actions in relation to adapting to climate change. The surveys follow, and the questionnaires were based on, similar surveys of the two groups conducted by CSIRO in 2010-11. In general, it is evident from the results of this survey that while climate change remains an issue of considerable importance to local government authorities it still appears of relatively minor concern to mining companies.Interestingly, while mining company respondents in the latest survey indicated greater conviction that climate change is occurring, the levels of concern about its detrimental impacts decreased from the previous survey. Nevertheless, there are many respondents in each group that consider climate change to be something that requires action, but that theinformation currently available is not adequate to meet their needs.

[发布日期] 2014-03-04 [发布机构] CSIRO

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)