MD-WERP Theme: Climate Adaptation
MD-WERP Theme 1 Project: Climate Adaptation Foundational Science
Research Lead: CSIRO
The Basin has a wide range of social, economic, ecological and cultural values that are under threat from climate change. Projected higher temperatures and lower rainfall for the Basin will have direct impacts on the availability of and demand for water, the viability of some agricultural systems and the frequency and intensity of bushfires, among many examples. Secondary impacts will also arise that may amplify or modulate direct impacts, for example the changes in catchment runoff, and hence water availability, from changed bushfire regimes.
This report documents the state of knowledge of the secondary, or indirect, impacts of climate change and prioritises topics for investigation in the MD-WERP Climate Adaption Theme.