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Social Networks As Sites Of E-Participation In Local Government, Travis Holland Jan 2015

Social Networks As Sites Of E-Participation In Local Government, Travis Holland

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This paper proposes that electronic social network sites (SNS) make visible forms of participatory behaviour to which local governments must respond. Groups and individuals – publics – operating in diverse ways for diverse purposes, propagate and respond to communication by local governments via SNS and, in doing so, practice electronic e-participation. In addition to alternate channels of communication, SNS can facilitate alternate forms of participatory behaviour online, but there is little alignment between public perceptions of these emerging practices and local government behaviours in the same space. The publics seeking to engage with local governments on SNS, expect that their …


"Cookie" And "Jungle Boy": A Historical Sketch Of The Different Cooks For Different Folks In British Colonial Southeast Asis, Ca. 1850-1960, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir Jan 2015

"Cookie" And "Jungle Boy": A Historical Sketch Of The Different Cooks For Different Folks In British Colonial Southeast Asis, Ca. 1850-1960, Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir

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This article advances the historiography on food and colonialism by using the categories of race, class and masculinity to highlight how social distinctions that were carefully maintained in the domestic sphere became blurred when colonials ventured into the field. South East Asian cooks, known as “Cookie,” were responsible for food preparation in colonial households of Malaysia and Singapore. It was their culinary skills and knowledge of local food supplies that helped develop a hybrid colonial cuisine. Other male servants in British Borneo, called simply “boys” in household, acquired the role of “jungle boys” when accompanying their colonial employers on travel …


Strengthened Enforcement Enhances Marine Sanctuary Performance, Brendan P. Kelaher, Andrew Page, Matt Dasey, David Maguire, Andrew D. Read, Melinda A. Coleman Jan 2015

Strengthened Enforcement Enhances Marine Sanctuary Performance, Brendan P. Kelaher, Andrew Page, Matt Dasey, David Maguire, Andrew D. Read, Melinda A. Coleman

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© 2015 The Authors. Marine sanctuaries are areas where the extraction of biota is not permitted. Although most marine sanctuaries have a positive influence on biotic communities, not all sanctuaries are meeting their conservation objectives. Amidst possible explanations (e.g., size, age and isolation), insufficient enforcement is often speculated to be a key driver of marine sanctuary underperformance. Despite this, there are few studies directly linking quantitative enforcement data to changes in biotic communities within marine sanctuaries. Here, we used an asymmetrical-BACI experimental design from 2006-2012 to test whether new enforcement initiatives enhanced abundances of target fishes and threatened species in …


'El Chapo' Jailbreak Is Both A Mexican And An American Story, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2015

'El Chapo' Jailbreak Is Both A Mexican And An American Story, Luis Gomez Romero

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Imagine a mighty drug lord confined in the toughest maximum-security prison. One night he escapes through a hole in the shower. This hole leads to a 1500-metre tunnel that ends in a construction site in a nearby neighbourhood. The tunnel has been equipped by expert mining engineers with lighting and ventilation. Its construction required 3250 tonnes of earth to be removed in sight of the guards in the prison’s towers. It seems like the plot of a blockbuster thriller. Unfortunately, it is an account of Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s jailbreak from the Altiplano prison near Mexico City. Guzmán – known as …


Learning From Delusions, Brian Martin Jan 2015

Learning From Delusions, Brian Martin

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Once or twice a year, I receive a call or email from someone claiming to be under intensive targeted surveillance by the government. They contact me because there's a lot of material on my website about whistleblowing, and some about surveillance. I know governments carry out massive surveillance operations, for example collecting all sorts of electronic communications. However, these callers believe they have been specially selected as surveillance targets, and sometimes for electronic or chemical bombardment too.


Chinese Politics In Darwin: Interconnections Between The Wah On Society And The Kuo Min Tang, J. Martinez Jan 2015

Chinese Politics In Darwin: Interconnections Between The Wah On Society And The Kuo Min Tang, J. Martinez

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In the 1920 and 1930s Chinese political activism in Darwin in northern Australia was roughly divided between the Kuo Min Tang, founded in 1924, and the older Wah On Society. Darwin had a majority Chinese population in 1911 and despite the effects of the White Australia policy the community maintained strong numbers through its Australian-born children. Before 1924 the Wah On Society was the main force in Chinese politics, concerning itself with community issues such as the temple, the aged and maintaining links to China. Its members also addressed the Australian government on matters of immigration, trade and employment - …


Review Of "Persuading Plato", Michael R. Jacklin Jan 2015

Review Of "Persuading Plato", Michael R. Jacklin

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Translingual writing is an aspect of literary production that is receiving increasing attention from scholars worldwide. In a recent issue of L2 Journal, editors Stephen Kellman and Natasha Lvovich argue that although translingual writing – that is, writing across languages, or writing in a language that is not the author’s first – may be as old as the earliest forms of alphabetic script, its practice has become especially widespread in contemporary culture.1 With the mass movements of peoples through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the works of writers who have chosen to write in a language which is not their …


Institutional Influences On The Parameters Of Criminalisation: Parliamentary Scrutiny Of Criminal Law Bills In New South Wales, Luke J. Mcnamara, Julia Quilter Jan 2015

Institutional Influences On The Parameters Of Criminalisation: Parliamentary Scrutiny Of Criminal Law Bills In New South Wales, Luke J. Mcnamara, Julia Quilter

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Within criminalisation scholarship, there has been little engagement with the work of ‘real-world’ mechanisms for promoting principled law-making, like the activities of parliamentary scrutiny committees. This article reports on an examination of the New South Wales (‘NSW’) Legislation Review Committee’s findings and recommendations in relation to all criminal law bills during the period 2010–12 and assesses the impact of the Committee’s recommendations on the passage of bills through the NSW Parliament. It considers whether the potential for scrutiny committees to play an effective role in delineating the legitimate boundaries of criminalisation is realised in practice.


Submission To The Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry Into Violence, Abuse And Neglect Against People With Disability In Institutional And Residential Settings, Including The Gender And Age Related Dimensions, And The Particular Situation Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People With Disability, And Culturally And Linguistically Diverse People With Disability (26 June), Linda Roslyn Steele Jan 2015

Submission To The Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry Into Violence, Abuse And Neglect Against People With Disability In Institutional And Residential Settings, Including The Gender And Age Related Dimensions, And The Particular Situation Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People With Disability, And Culturally And Linguistically Diverse People With Disability (26 June), Linda Roslyn Steele

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This submission is made to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee’s (‘Senate Committee’) inquiry into violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings, including the gender and age related dimensions, and the particular situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability (‘the Senate Inquiry’).


Olivetti And The Missing Third: Fashion, Working Women And Images Of The Mechanical-Flâneuse In The 1920s And 1930s, Jonathan P. Cockburn Jan 2015

Olivetti And The Missing Third: Fashion, Working Women And Images Of The Mechanical-Flâneuse In The 1920s And 1930s, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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This paper addresses images of the mechanical-flâneuse as the efficient modern woman at work in the 1920s and 1930s. To do so the characteristics of flânerie, traveling theory, and concepts of self-presentation are explored in relationship to the concurrent and transcultural influence on occupation and fashionable appearance of interest in Taylorism in the USA, USSR and Italy.


The Employee's Contractual Duty Of Fidelity, Andrew Frazer Jan 2015

The Employee's Contractual Duty Of Fidelity, Andrew Frazer

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[not published: supplied by author] Although the implied contractual duty of employees to serve with fidelity and good faith has long been recognised, its origins have been unclear. It is usually dated from a series of cases in the late nineteenth century. It has been contended that this duty is really a transmogrified form of fiduciary duty. This article shows that the duty of fidelity is not only considerably older than usually recognised, but has been formulated by the courts in a consistent manner and relying exclusively on contract principles. Recent decisions which distinguish contractual and fiduciary obligations are not …


Re-Imagining Geographic Labour Mobility Through 'Distance Labour', Nicholas Skilton Jan 2015

Re-Imagining Geographic Labour Mobility Through 'Distance Labour', Nicholas Skilton

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Geographic labour mobility is necessary for increasing productivity in Australia. Long-distance commuting has been found to be especially significant. However, important considerations are being excluded from policy discussions within the Productivity Commission on this topic. This commentary covers these important omissions. They are, namely, the problematic conflation of the terminologies of 'fly-in, fly-out' and 'long-distance commuting' with mining, and a lack of qualitative research investigating the material impacts of these labour practices on people's lives. This commentary puts forward a new terminology, 'distance labour', to better include those industries on the margins of distance commuting. By accounting for the social …


Intellectual Property And Transparency In Trade Negotiations: The Experience Of Thailand, Jakkrit Kuanpoth Jan 2015

Intellectual Property And Transparency In Trade Negotiations: The Experience Of Thailand, Jakkrit Kuanpoth

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This article concentrates on the problem of non-transparency in non-multilateral norm-setting activities in the intellectual property field. It highlights the experience of Thailand in order to show the inability of the general public to participate in decision-making relating to trade negotiations and to access information regarding trade agreements. It explores the issue of transparency in this international norm-setting process that will support the debate on development-oriented policy in order to better understand the socio-economic impacts of trade liberalization.


From Work With Men And Boys To Changes Of Social Norms And Reduction Of Inequities In Gender Relations: A Conceptual Shift In Prevention Of Violence Against Women And Girls, Rachel K. Jewkes, Michael G. Flood, James Lang Jan 2015

From Work With Men And Boys To Changes Of Social Norms And Reduction Of Inequities In Gender Relations: A Conceptual Shift In Prevention Of Violence Against Women And Girls, Rachel K. Jewkes, Michael G. Flood, James Lang

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Violence perpetrated by and against men and boys is a major public health problem. Although individual men's use of violence differs, engagement of all men and boys in action to prevent violence against women and girls is essential. We discuss why this engagement approach is theoretically important and how prevention interventions have developed from treating men simply as perpetrators of violence against women and girls or as allies of women in its prevention, to approaches that seek to transform the relations, social norms, and systems that sustain gender inequality and violence. We review evidence of intervention effectiveness in the reduction …


How Should Rural Policy Be Evaluated If It Aims To Foster Community Involvement In Environmental Management?, Katrin Prager, Birte Nienaber, Barbara Neumann, Alistair Phillips Jan 2015

How Should Rural Policy Be Evaluated If It Aims To Foster Community Involvement In Environmental Management?, Katrin Prager, Birte Nienaber, Barbara Neumann, Alistair Phillips

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This paper brings together different theoretical perspectives to propose an evaluation framework for policies which have the explicit aim to foster communities' involvement in the management of their natural environment in the context of sustainable rural development, such as the EU LEADER programme, Australia's Caring for Our Country, and UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Previous policy evaluations have over-simplified the complex social-ecological systems on which these policies are intended to act, have lacked specification of the policy level they address and were predicated on the assumption that policies can be designed to produce predictable outcomes. Based on a concept of ‘complex realities’ …


Mercury (Hg) Speciation In Coral Reef Systems Of Remote Oceania: Implications For The Artisanal Fisheries Of Tutuila, Samoa Islands, R John Morrison, Peter Peshut, Ronald J. West, Brenda K. Lasorsa Jan 2015

Mercury (Hg) Speciation In Coral Reef Systems Of Remote Oceania: Implications For The Artisanal Fisheries Of Tutuila, Samoa Islands, R John Morrison, Peter Peshut, Ronald J. West, Brenda K. Lasorsa

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We investigated Hg in muscle tissue of fish species from three trophic levels on fringing reefs of Tutuila (14°S, 171°W), plus water, sediment and turf alga. Accumulation of total Hg in the herbivore Acanthurus lineatus (Acanthuridae, lined surgeonfish, (n =40)) was negligible at 1.05 (±0.04) ngg-1 wet-weight, (~65% occurring as methyl Hg). The mid-level carnivore Parupeneus spp. (Mullidae, goatfishes (n =10)) had total Hg 29.8 (±4.5) ngg-1 wet-weight (~99% as methyl Hg). Neither A. lineatus or Parupeneus spp. showed a propensity to accumulate Hg based on body size. Both groups were assigned a status of "un-restricted" for monthly …


Listening To Hear: Critical Allies In Indigenous Studies, Colleen Mcgloin Jan 2015

Listening To Hear: Critical Allies In Indigenous Studies, Colleen Mcgloin

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This paper reflects on a particular class in an undergraduate seminar in Australian Indigenous Studies where anecdote played a crucial role and where both the teacher and learners were challenged to consider their implication as racialised subjects in the teaching and learning process. The paper argues that student anecdote can be a vital bridge between theory and practice in adult learning. It suggests that all learners in Indigenous Studies, and also in studies of race and difference more generally, need to undertake effective listening and hearing practices in order to consider, imagine and engage with experiences and worldviews other than …


'Identity' And Governance In Synthetic Biology: Norms And Counter Norms In The 'International Genetically Engineered Machine' (Igem) Competition, David W. Mercer Jan 2015

'Identity' And Governance In Synthetic Biology: Norms And Counter Norms In The 'International Genetically Engineered Machine' (Igem) Competition, David W. Mercer

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A number of commentaries preoccupied with the legal, social and ethical implications of synthetic biology have emphasised that an important element shaping options for its future governance will be the normative ethos that is adopted by the emerging field. One venue that has regularly been identified as central to the development of this normative ethos is the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, an annual synthetic biology competition, which attracts thousands of students from across the world. The ideal values promoted by iGEM of collaboration, interdisciplinarity, sharing of results, and overt commitment to the consideration of social and ethical implications …


Spectra Of Birds, 2014–15, Madeleine T. Kelly Jan 2015

Spectra Of Birds, 2014–15, Madeleine T. Kelly

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In ‘Spectra of Birds’ abstract images of birds spotted in West Wollongong are squeezed or trapped into the rectilinear architecture of empty Tetra Paks. The resulting expressionist distortions – angular in shape as determined by the cartons – are half bird, half cultural object suggesting the continual commodification of nature, a world gradually destroying itself, and the transformation of rubbish. In capitulating to the cartons’ open spouts, the birds embody the phantasmatic property of everyday materials replete with associative meanings of myth and consumerism. Two modes of identity birds/cartons and art/consumer material are sustained simultaneously in a single object. From …


Radical Ruminations (09 August), Rowan Cahill Jan 2015

Radical Ruminations (09 August), Rowan Cahill

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News of a forthcoming ‘Denis Kevans Memorial Concert Fundraiser for Chemical Warfare Victims of the Vietnam War’ (Sydney, 23 August 2015) brought back memories, and because Denis was never far away from both the making and study of history, a few notes seem appropriate……. Denis Kevans (1939-2005) was a songwriter, folk singer, public servant, labourer on building sites, trade unionist, teacher, journalist, but mostly he was a poet. We met in 1965, and I published a couple of his now classic anti-war poems in the Sydney University student newspaper honi soit. Our association continued thereafter until his death from complications …


Quick Fixes Aren't The Answer, Alcohol And Violence Have A Complex Relationship, Kate Seear, Julia Quilter, Luke J. Mcnamara, Robin Room Jan 2015

Quick Fixes Aren't The Answer, Alcohol And Violence Have A Complex Relationship, Kate Seear, Julia Quilter, Luke J. Mcnamara, Robin Room

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The NSW Sentencing Council is considering proposals to change the laws designed to address alcohol-related violence, including whether people who commit crimes while intoxicated should always be treated as more culpable when being sentenced. Like many attention-grabbing quick fixes to society’s ills, this is a really bad idea. If adopted, the reform could lead to even tougher sentences for crimes committed by people affected by alcohol. Although it’s tempting to think of such crimes as new problems requiring novel solutions, debates about the relationship between alcohol and violence, including how it should be dealt with by criminal laws, are anything …


The Challenge Of Managing Earth's New Economic Frontier: Our Oceans, Alistair Mcilgorm Jan 2015

The Challenge Of Managing Earth's New Economic Frontier: Our Oceans, Alistair Mcilgorm

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Amid growing demand for seafood, gas and other resources drawn from the world’s oceans, and growing stresses from climate change, we examine some of the challenges and solutions for developing “the blue economy” in smarter, more sustainable ways.


If We Want To Keep Tuna, The World Needs To Learn How To Share, Quentin A. Hanich Jan 2015

If We Want To Keep Tuna, The World Needs To Learn How To Share, Quentin A. Hanich

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Amid growing demand for seafood, gas and other resources drawn from the world’s oceans, and growing stresses from climate change, we examine some of the challenges and solutions for developing “the blue economy” in smarter, more sustainable ways.


Doing Deference”: Identities And Relational Practices In Chinese Online Discussion Boards, Michael Haugh, Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Dániel Z. Kadar Jan 2015

Doing Deference”: Identities And Relational Practices In Chinese Online Discussion Boards, Michael Haugh, Wei-Lin Melody Chang, Dániel Z. Kadar

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In this paper we examine a key relational practice found in interactions in online discussion boards in Mainland China and Taiwan: ‘doing deference’. In drawing attention to a relational practice that has received attention in quite different research traditions, namely, linguistic pragmatics and conversation analysis (CA), we mean to highlight the possible advantages of an approach to analysis that draws from both in analysing relational work in CMC. We claim in the course of our analysis that the participants are orienting not only to relationships but also to identities through this practice. In this way, we suggest that online discussion …


Human Security And Livelihoods In Savo Island, Solomon Islands: Engaging With The Market Economy: A Report For Honiara City Council., Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley, Anouk Ride, Melinda Kii, Walter Turasi Jan 2015

Human Security And Livelihoods In Savo Island, Solomon Islands: Engaging With The Market Economy: A Report For Honiara City Council., Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley, Anouk Ride, Melinda Kii, Walter Turasi

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This independent research report, Human Security and Livelihoods in Savo Island, Solomon Islands: Engaging with the Market Economy, aims to identify the ways in which Solomon Islanders from Savo Island engage with the Honiara Central Market (HCM). The main aim of the project is to provide evidence-based research that can inform government and donor responses to issues of economic development and human security on Savo Island, expecially as they relate to issues of agricultural production and the articulation of Savo Island with the urban centre of Honiara. The research was funded by the Australian Catholic Univsersity and University of Wollongong.


Regional Economic Impacts Of A Closure Of Bluescope Steel Operations In Port Kembla, Scott Burrows, Ashkan Masouman, Charles Harvie Jan 2015

Regional Economic Impacts Of A Closure Of Bluescope Steel Operations In Port Kembla, Scott Burrows, Ashkan Masouman, Charles Harvie

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The report takes the following form. Section one discusses the region and its economic context reviewing existing studies of steel production and restructure. It considers the employment impacts of previous downturns and places into context the current predicament. Section two outlines the impact analysis of the BlueScope Steel using the Input/Output model. Section three outlines the main findings from the analysis and concludes the report. The study comprises the local government areas of Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama. It also includes the areas of the Shoalhaven and Wingecarribee. This area is defined as the Illawarra region as measured by the Australian …


Limits Of Naturalism: Plasticity, Finitude And The Imagination, Gregory C. Melleuish, Susanna G. Rizzo Jan 2015

Limits Of Naturalism: Plasticity, Finitude And The Imagination, Gregory C. Melleuish, Susanna G. Rizzo

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This paper argues that the two primary features defining human beings are their finitude and plasticity and that this is the consequence that human beings live in a world which is constantly changing, hence historical. This means that the relationship between humans and their world is constantly changing and hence that relationship cannot be understood in a simple naturalistic fashion. Not only is there no ‘innocence of language’, but humanity relates to the world in a variety of ways ranging from prose to poetry to art and music. It is the continuous creation of this multiplicity of approaches to the …


The Impact Of Section 18c And Other Civil Anti-Vilification Laws In Australia, Luke J. Mcnamara, Katharine Gelber Jan 2015

The Impact Of Section 18c And Other Civil Anti-Vilification Laws In Australia, Luke J. Mcnamara, Katharine Gelber

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This paper reports on the findings of a large scale study of the impact of anti-vilification (or ‘hate speech’) laws,1 on public discourse in Australia over more than two decades.2 Its scope includes, but is not limited to s 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). We investigated the ways in which legislation might have affected public discourse over time. Our task was methodologically challenging, for connecting changes in public discourse to the introduction or enforcement of hate speech laws is fraught with difficulty. We triangulated data from a range of primary and secondary sources, to investigate the relationship …


Aerial Patrols Don't See All The Sharks, But They're Keeping People Safe, Duncan Leadbitter Jan 2015

Aerial Patrols Don't See All The Sharks, But They're Keeping People Safe, Duncan Leadbitter

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The recent series of shark bites on the north coast of New South Wales is a politician’s worst nightmare, as the government tries to balance public safety with protecting wildlife. In response NSW has stayed away from culling sharks and launched a new program, run through the Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries, to tag, track and monitor sharks. However, more research may not necessarily prove to be the answer because good research takes time and large resource allocations to deal with infrequent events – and politicians don’t have the luxury of time. Instead, we should look at programs that are …


Future Coastal Population Growth And Exposure To Sea-Level Rise And Coastal Flooding – A Global Assessment, Barbara Neumann, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Juliane Zimmermann, Robert J. Nicholls Jan 2015

Future Coastal Population Growth And Exposure To Sea-Level Rise And Coastal Flooding – A Global Assessment, Barbara Neumann, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Juliane Zimmermann, Robert J. Nicholls

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Coastal zones are exposed to a range of coastal hazards including sea-level rise with its related effects. At the same time, they are more densely populated than the hinterland and exhibit higher rates of population growth and urbanisation. As this trend is expected to continue into the future, we investigate how coastal populations will be affected by such impacts at global and regional scales by the years 2030 and 2060. Starting frombaseline population estimates for the year 2000, we assess future population change in the low-elevation coastal zone and trends in exposure to 100-year coastal floods based on four different …