This study identifies adaptation needs and proposes adaptation options to manage the impact of future climate change in the Australian uranium industry. The study is focussed on two mines - the Ranger and Olympic Dam sites, which represent in excess of 73% of the Australian uranium production. The study employed part of a previous vulnerability assessment from each of the mines' supply chain participants, through which they self-assessed their site-specific risk management plans and their abilities to manage the risk of climate change. Adaptation options were identified and ranked (in three scenarios of decision making) through a multi-criteria analysis process that considered cost-efficiency, effectiveness, speed of implementation, human capital, and additional benefits of adaptation. For each of the sites, the results revealed that an improvement in both internal and external communications with supply chain participants would be the most effective way to increase the capacity for adaptation to climate change in the future. Furthermore, the study reveals that improving the employees’ knowledge about the identification of the climate extremes (climate events and extreme weather events) in their risk management plans (RMPs) and increasing the frequency by which they update their RMPs would improve their adaptive capacity.

这项研究确定了适应需求，并提出了适应方案，以管理未来气候变化对澳大利亚铀业的影响。该研究集中于两个矿山-Ranger和Olympic Dam矿山，这两个矿山占澳大利亚铀产量的73％以上。该研究采用了之前每个矿山供应链参与者的脆弱性评估的一部分，通过这些评估，他们可以自我评估其特定地点的风险管理计划以及他们应对气候变化风险的能力。通过多标准分析过程（考虑了成本效率，有效性，实施速度，人力资本和适应的附加收益），确定了适应方案并进行了排序（在三种决策方案中）。对于每个网站，结果表明，改善与供应链参与者之间的内部和外部沟通将是增加未来适应气候变化能力的最有效方法。此外，研究表明，在员工的风险管理计划（RMP）中，他们提高了员工对气候极端事件（气候事件和极端天气事件）识别的认识。），并增加其更新RMP的频率将提高其自适应能力。