Adaptation Actions

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55 - Thoroughly inspect all bullock fencing before a cyclone to cut out any living branches on posts (i.e. purao fences)

56 - Avoid corrosive fencing materials (i.e. barb wire)

57 - Allow glycine to grow over barbed wire fences to provide a physical barrier to salt exposure

60 - Raise/elevate river creek crossings highly

61 - Bury/lower river/creek crossings well underground

62 - If possible, have water pipes cross rivers/creeks at less vulnerable points up or down stream

63 - Use local knowledge of cyclone vulnerable areas when laying water pipes/infrastructure

163 - Utilize appropriate building materials for livestock enclosres that can withstand climtic extremes

367 - Ensure proper drainage: outflow needs direction away from infrastructures and towards a safer place

368 - Check that hand pumps are properly sealed (at top of bore hole) to prevent contamination and back leakage

369 - Fully check the performance of new systems 3 months – 1 yr after construction

370 - Build homes with cement around the base so as to prevent inundation

371 - Build homes that are raised above ground level to prevent household inundation during floods

372 - Build walls and sea walls to prevent storm surge related flooding

373 - Develop health guidelines on consumption and contamination by air pollution and ash

472 - Plant coastal, native, endemic and site adapted species on beaches and vulnerable coasts trees to control erosion

473 - Plant/protect wetland species including mangroves to reduce erosion

473 (a) - Erosion of coastal forest areas

474 - Encourage and assist communities to establish forested buffer zones between the coast and the village

475 - Research the potential for desalination and irrigation of coastal woodlots/plantations

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