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Building resilience to
a changing climate in
the South Australian
Murray-Darling Basin
Workshop 1 – Loxton
1 November 2013
Project Team
• Dr Mark Siebentritt
• Ms Nicole Halsey
• Professor Wayne Meyer
• Mr Craig Clifton
• Dr Mark Stafford Smith et al.
Overview
• Why and how?
• What influences viability of sectors?
• What does climate change mean for the • What does climate change mean for the region?
• Values and governance
• Next steps
1. Why and how?
Why?
How?
How?
How?
How?
Opportunities
Managing risk
Resilience
Managing risk Partnerships
Building on existing learnings
• Solid foundation of past projects
• Local knowledge and experience
• What does it tell us?
We have sufficient knowledge to act, • We have sufficient knowledge to act,
we need to identify and prioritise action
Build on existing knowledge
LOCAL KNOW HOW
We have sufficient knowledge to act; we need to identify and prioritise adaptation options
LOCAL KNOW HOW
Objective and aims
Implement adaptation planning and build momentum
for a collaborative approach in addressing climate
change risks
The project aims include :
a) Building a higher level of understanding of the Cut through a) Building a higher level of understanding of the
adaptive capacity of the region
b) A more coordinated approach to planning for and
managing climate change
c) A contribution to emergency risk management
d) Build collaboration and desire for regional partners
to work together to identify risks and opportunities
e) Build a greater degree of understanding of the
work already completed in the region and whom
within the region should undertake this work
Cut through
Motivate people
to act
Relevant now
Look for
opportunity
Process
1. Viability and values
2. Impacts and adaptive capacity
TODAY
3. Assessing and prioritising adaptation options
4. Adaptation plan
2. What influences the viability of
sectors in the region?sectors in the region?
When to
plant a crop
Buy a tractor
????
Buy new land
Maintain
roads
Access to
export
markets
Decisions and their lifetimes
Today’s decisions
must account for how
long their effects will be felt
Stafford Smith et al, PhilTransRoySoc 2011 (after Jones & McInnes 2004)Stafford Smith et al, PhilTransRoySoc 2011 (after Jones & McInnes 2004)
Eyre Peninsula
Eyre Peninsula
Question:
What influences the viability of your
sector?sector?
3. What does climate change
mean for the region?mean for the region?
4. Understanding knowledge,
values and governance
structures in the region structures in the region
values
The context for decision
making: Values, rules
and knowledge
knowledge rules
decisions
Adapted from Gorddard 2013
5. Next steps
Assessing vulnerability and
resilience
• Select indicators
• Potential impact:
– Exposure
– Sensitivity– Sensitivity
• Adaptive capacity
• Provides a measure of vulnerability