Socio-economic trends and climate change adaptation: the case of South East Queensland

Roiko, Anne; Mangoyana, Robert; McFallan, Stephen; Carter, Bill; Oliver, Jamie; Smith, Tim

doi:10.1080/14486563.2011.646754

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“…Storms and rainfall are likely to intensify, while sea level will continue to rise. Climate extremes place added pressure on already constrained resources, while extreme weather events such as floods endanger biodiversity, damage infrastructure, and threaten lives and livelihoods especially of the vulnerable (Roiko et al 2012).…”

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“…While not part of longer-term research or formally connected with any planning processes, the project was designed to build on previous participatory climate research and consultations in SEQ, including community workshops on two Moreton Bay islands (Chapman 2010a and b), the SEQ-Climate Adaptation Research Initiative (McDonald et al 2010;Roiko et al 2012) and a large community-based 'climate summit' held in Logan 2 years before this project. At the time of the research there were no local climate adaptation steps happening, that might have proved divisive in the communities.…”

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A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs

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Emerging literature on climate adaptation suggests the need for effective ways of engaging or activating communities and supporting community roles, coupled with whole-of-system approaches to understanding climate change and adaptation needs. We have developed and evaluated a participatory approach to elicit community and stakeholder understanding of climate change adaptation needs, and connect diverse community members and local office bearers towards potential action. The approach was trialed in a series of connected social-ecological systems along a transect from a rural area to the coast and islands of ecologically sensitive Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia. We conducted 'climate roundtables' in each of three areas along the transect, then a fourth roundtable reviewed and extended the results to the region as a whole. Influence diagrams produced through the process show how each climate variable forecast to affect this region (heat, storm, flood, sea-level rise, Climatic Change (2015) A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs fire, drought) affects the natural environment, infrastructure, economic and social behaviour patterns, and psychosocial responses, and how sets of people, species and ecosystems are affected, and act, differentially. The participatory process proved effective as a way of building local empathy, a local knowledge base and empowering participants to join towards future climate adaptation action. Key principles are highlighted to assist in adapting the process for use elsewhere.

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“…Authors from various disciplines, including socialecological systems and resilience Turner et al 2003;Walker et al 2004), sustainable livelihoods (Ellis 2000;Scoones 2009), hazards research (Berkes 2007;Smith 2013), fisheries (Tuler et al 2008;Perry et al 2010;Kittinger et al 2013), agriculture (Eakin 2005;Paavola 2008) and climate change vulnerability and adaptation (Adger 2006;Marshall et al 2010;Eriksen et al 2011;Roiko et al 2012), have stressed the importance of considering multiple interacting exposures in research, policy and practice. Initially, this discussion remained largely at the conceptual realm (Turner et al 2003;Brklacich et al 2009).…”

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Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures

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The majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals, communities and sectors experience a broad array of multi-scalar and multi-temporal, social, political, economic and environmental changes to which they are vulnerable and must adapt. While extensive theoreticaland increasingly empirical-work suggests the need to explore multiple exposures, a clear conceptual framework which would facilitate analysis of vulnerability and adaptation to multiple interacting socioeconomic and biophysical changes is lacking. This review and synthesis paper aims to fill this gap through presenting a conceptual framework for integrating multiple exposures into vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning. To support applications of the framework and facilitate assessments and comparative analyses of community vulnerability, we develop a comprehensive typology of drivers and exposures experienced by coastal communities. Our results reveal essential elements of a pragmatic approach for localscale vulnerability analysis and for planning appropriate adaptations within the context of multiple interacting exposures. We also identify methodologies for characterizing exposures and impacts, exploring interactions and identifying and prioritizing responses. This review focuses on coastal communities; however, we believe the framework, typology and approach will be useful for understanding vulnerability and planning adaptation to multiple exposures in various social-ecological contexts.

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“…They also point to changes in social-economic context which need to be anticipated and planned for. A desktop analysis of current socioeconomic trends for SEQ based on Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 1996, 2001 and 2006 census data and projections on population and housing was undertaken (Stevenson 2002;Roiko et al 2012). The study highlights the potential implications of the observed trends and projections for the sectors of: (1) Infrastructure, Human Settlements and Health; (2) Ecosystems and Biodiversity; (3) Energy; and (4) Agriculture.…”

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“…The process of synthesising data generated from the four methods described involved tabulating constraints on adaptive capacity identified in each of the four reports Richards et al 2012;Roiko et al 2012;Sano et al 2012) and generating options for enhancing adaptive capacity. These constraints and options were categorised according to three general determinants frequently identified in the BBNs: community resilience and well-being, institutions and policy, and finance.…”

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Building adaptive capacity in South East Queensland, Australia

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The effectiveness of various adaptation options is dependent on the capacity to plan, design and implement them. Understanding the determinants of adaptive capacity is, therefore, crucial for effective responses to climate change. This paper offers an assessment of adaptive capacity across a range of sectors in South East Queensland, Australia. The paper has four parts, including (1) an overview of adaptive capacity, in particular as a learning process; (2) a description of the various methods used to determine adaptive capacity; (3) a synthesis of the determinants of adaptive capacity; and (4) the identification of mechanisms to build adaptive capacity in the region. We conclude that the major issue impacting adaptive capacity is not the availability of physical resources but the dominant social, political and institutional culture of the region.

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Socio-economic trends and climate change adaptation: the case of South East Queensland

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs

A participatory systems approach to understanding climate adaptation needs

Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures

Building adaptive capacity in South East Queensland, Australia

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