Social Adaptation to Climate Change in the Australian Public Sphere: A comparison of individual and group deliberative responses to scenarios of future climate change

The project develops an understanding of Australia's response to climate change and ways to improve adaptation. An inter-disciplinary team of 6 leading social and climate scientists will construct and use original climate change scenarios to assess public responses through interviews, survey methods, contrasting individual responses with results of deliberative forums and follow up interviews. Significant developments in methods and concepts and understanding of adaptation will have an international audience. It will produce a series of regionally specific scenarios, statement of likely responses and role of institutional design and policy in improving adaptation.