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indirect impacts and opportunities associated with climate change. These strategies should be
informed by specific land use climate impact studies.
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There is inadequate supply of information available to understand fully the impacts that climate
change has on residential, industrial and commercial areas. The WARCCAP project should
undertake the following additional studies:
Examine shopping and business behaviours under different climate scenarios to ascertain
potential impacts for commercial land planning.
Examine risks to industrial businesses from climate change and explore the need and options
for more innovative land use planning policy that will assist business to adapt to climate
change.
Examine in detail the potential effects that a modified climate will have on residential land use
planning including a review of existing tools that will serve to support climate change
adaptation (e.g. planning policy, building code, administrative practices, engineering codes).
