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| Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation |
Wednesday 20th August 2008
Facilitated by: Professor Bob Miles, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Regional Development, Central Queensland University; Associate Professor Peter Waterman, Coordinator, Climate Change, Coasts and Catchments, Faculty of Science, Health and Education, University of the Sunshine Coast; Professor Richard Warrick, Professor of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, University of the Sunshine Coast and Greg Laves, Faculty of Science, Health and Education, University of the Sunshine Coast.
Understanding the environmental, social and economic dimensions and responses for adapting to climatic variability and change is a critical issue for regional Australia. Adaptation needs to be mainstreamed into local and regional development policy, plans, programs and projects of governments and business. The Regional Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Workshop aims to show how this can be done. Along with up to date information there will be case studies from local government and the Murray Darling Basin Commission showing successful applications, as well as a hands on climate simulation model suitable for application in your own region.
Adaptation and Mitigation Workshop aims to:
• Strengthen the essential links between perspectives and policy on climate change adaptation and the tools and techniques for reducing risks and impacts.
• Demonstrate how economic development practitioners, planners and natural resources managers in regional Australia can be readily equipped to meet the challenges of climatic variability and extreme weather conditions.
Key issues for discussion include:
• Approaches to adaptation through risk reduction.
• Identifying and developing tools and techniques for integrated assessment and management.
• Capacity building to equip regional stakeholders to deal with the environmental, social and economic dimensions of climate change. Central to the practical outcomes of the workshop will be the hands-on demonstrations of established and emerging tools and techniques for:
• Vulnerability and adaptation assessment in relation to regional settlement patterns and infrastructure provision.
• Incorporating benefit-cost and other social and economic analysis into assessments of the vulnerability of regions to climatic and related environmental change.
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The following workshops will be run at the SEGRA 2008 Conference:
Half day Workshops
Full day Workshops
Study Tours |
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