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We know the seas are rising – so why are Australian governments not planning for it?

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par Anthony Boxshall, Enterprise Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Anna Grage, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
Tom Kompas, Professor of Environmental Economics and Biosecurity, The University of Melbourne

The vast majority of Australians (87%) live within 50 kilometres of a coastline. The coast offers scenery, swimming and cooling from the sea.

But the problem is, coastlines as we know them are going to change. Sea-level rise is accelerating. As seas inch higher, storm surges can reach further inland and coastal erosion intensifies. Australia’s coasts are not…

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