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Climate change is now widely recognised as the pressing global issue of the next fifty years, requiring social and cultural as well as scientific solutions. The project this report summarises aimed to build adaptive capacity for climate change mitigation and adaptation, using cultural research. We focused on the Illawarra, a region central to Australia’s carbon economy. We undertook a baseline study of current knowledge of climate change and tracked community response over a period of five years from 2009 to 2013. We identified social and cultural resources for, and constraints to, more environmentally sustainable behaviours, with an aim to contribute to policy solutions. The project provides a basis for regional and international comparisons. Specifically, the project’s five stated aims were to: 1. Undertake a baseline study of current knowledge of climate change in a regional community. The Illawarra is both a microcosm capturing the diversity of issues afflicting Australia as a whole, and a region that can act as an ‘experimental laboratory ’ for identifying and devel-oping options for the future. 2. Track the response of that community to these challenges over a period of five years, by recording and analysing narratives of success and failure, resilience and vulnerability, engagement and apathy. 3. Identify existing cultural resources for, and constraints to, more environmentally sustainable behaviours. 4. Provide new knowledge to contribute to the emerging suite of necessary local, regional and national policy initiatives. 5. Provide an archival base for longitudinal studies over coming decades, and an exemplar for comparable regions in Australia and overseas.

prepared this report with assistance from and review by Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents Area Technical Advisory Committee. Other sectors within DFO and third-party contractors also contributed to the writing and review of this management plan.

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