Climate change - Local

Victorian Midlands all species

Mitchell Shire

3. Community engagement and climate change: Definitions and approaches_____12 3.1. Defining community engagement______________________________________12 3.2. Levels of community engagement _____________________________________13 3.3. Overview of climate change and community engagement approaches and strategies____________________________________________________________16 4. Climate change and community engagement: the case for action ____________24 4.1. Community engagement as a tool for improving public policy processes and outcomes____________________________________________________________24 4.2. Community engagement as a tool for improving climate change policy outcomes 25 4.3. Evaluation of community engagement and climate change strategies__________28 5. Community Engagement and Climate Change: Key Success Factors and Challenges____________________________________________________________31 5. 1. Community engagement and climate change success factors: Learning from best practice _____________________________________________________________32 5.2. Challenges in achieving effective community engagement outcomes __________33 5.3. Key Community Engagement Success Factors and Challenges: Learning from recent Victorian experience______________________________________________34 6. Community engagement and climate change with specific population groups __47 6.1. Engaging vulnerable and 'hard to reach' groups __________________________47 6.2. Examples of projects designed to engage specific population groups __________48 6.3. Engaging older people ______________________________________________51 6.4. Working with communities effected by drought ___________________________52 7. Community Engagement and Climate Change: Key Principles and Priorities ___56

3. Community engagement and climate change: Definitions and approaches_____12 3.1. Defining community engagement______________________________________12 3.2. Levels of community engagement _____________________________________13 3.3. Overview of climate change and community engagement approaches and strategies____________________________________________________________16 4. Climate change and community engagement: the case for action ____________24 4.1. Community engagement as a tool for improving public policy processes and outcomes____________________________________________________________24 4.2. Community engagement as a tool for improving climate change policy outcomes 25 4.3. Evaluation of community engagement and climate change strategies__________28 5. Community Engagement and Climate Change: Key Success Factors and Challenges____________________________________________________________31 5. 1. Community engagement and climate change success factors: Learning from best practice _____________________________________________________________32 5.2. Challenges in achieving effective community engagement outcomes __________33 5.3. Key Community Engagement Success Factors and Challenges: Learning from recent Victorian experience______________________________________________34 6. Community engagement and climate change with specific population groups __47 6.1. Engaging vulnerable and 'hard to reach' groups __________________________47 6.2. Examples of projects designed to engage specific population groups __________48 6.3. Engaging older people ______________________________________________51 6.4. Working with communities effected by drought ___________________________52 7. Community Engagement and Climate Change: Key Principles and Priorities ___56

This publication provides the latest scientific knowledge on a series of climate change topics relevant to Australia and the world. It draws on peer-reviewed literature contributed to by thousands of researchers. Available as a free eBook. Introduction Chapter 1: Observations of global and Australian climate Chapter 2: Climate and greenhouse gases Chapter 3: Future Australian climate scenarios Chapter 4: Climate change impacts Chapter 5: Adaptation: reducing risk, gaining opportunity Chapter 6: Adapting to heatwaves and coastal flooding Chapter 7: Adapting agriculture to climate change Chapter 8: Greenhouse gas mitigation: sources and sinks in agriculture and forestry Chapter 9: Mitigation strategies for energy and transport Chapter 10: Reducing energy demand: the imperative for behavioural change Chapter 11: Responding to a changing climate Endnotes, Index

This publication provides the latest scientific knowledge on a series of climate change topics relevant to Australia and the world. It draws on peer-reviewed literature contributed to by thousands of researchers. Available as a free eBook. Introduction Chapter 1: Observations of global and Australian climate Chapter 2: Climate and greenhouse gases Chapter 3: Future Australian climate scenarios Chapter 4: Climate change impacts Chapter 5: Adaptation: reducing risk, gaining opportunity Chapter 6: Adapting to heatwaves and coastal flooding Chapter 7: Adapting agriculture to climate change Chapter 8: Greenhouse gas mitigation: sources and sinks in agriculture and forestry Chapter 9: Mitigation strategies for energy and transport Chapter 10: Reducing energy demand: the imperative for behavioural change Chapter 11: Responding to a changing climate Endnotes, Index

Chapter 10: Reducing energy demand: the imperative for behavioural change

Chapter 10: Reducing energy demand: the imperative for behavioural change

"Leading winemaker preparing for climate change"

"Leading winemaker preparing for climate change"

University of Queensland researchers fear that natural heritage such as the Great Barrier Reef and northern tropical rainforests could lose out if investment decisions are made on the basis of economic values rather than environmental value. Credit: Toby Hudson / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Research by UQ Business School Masters students suggests that Queensland tourism could be badly affected by climate change. With the industry generating close to $19 billion in annual revenue and accounting for one in 10 jobs, measures to adapt to overcome the adverse effects would be necessary. Using different climate change scenarios, the students compared leading tourist destinations on their tourism revenue, their vulnerability to climate change, and their ability to adapt to it. They found that the south-east Queensland coast, from a purely business perspective, should be given the highest priority for climate change action, with the lowest priority given to the Australian outback and northern tropical rainforest regions of the state. UQ Business School Lecturer and corporate sustainability expert, Dr Martina Linnenluecke, said, 'This research is one of the first studies to combine insights into the costs of adaptation, as well as the vulnerabilities of different regions. 'It identified that those areas most vulnerable to climate change, including The Great Barrier Reef and northern tropical rainforests, might be neglected in adaptation decisions, simply because they do not generate much of the tourism sector's overall revenue. 'The findings of this project are yet another indicator that governments, industry sectors and individual businesses need to carefully consider adaptation actions and decisions - and to consider both economic and environmental implications.' Source: University of Queensland

University of Queensland researchers fear that natural heritage such as the Great Barrier Reef and northern tropical rainforests could lose out if investment decisions are made on the basis of economic values rather than environmental value. Credit: Toby Hudson / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Research by UQ Business School Masters students suggests that Queensland tourism could be badly affected by climate change. With the industry generating close to $19 billion in annual revenue and accounting for one in 10 jobs, measures to adapt to overcome the adverse effects would be necessary. Using different climate change scenarios, the students compared leading tourist destinations on their tourism revenue, their vulnerability to climate change, and their ability to adapt to it. They found that the south-east Queensland coast, from a purely business perspective, should be given the highest priority for climate change action, with the lowest priority given to the Australian outback and northern tropical rainforest regions of the state. UQ Business School Lecturer and corporate sustainability expert, Dr Martina Linnenluecke, said, 'This research is one of the first studies to combine insights into the costs of adaptation, as well as the vulnerabilities of different regions. 'It identified that those areas most vulnerable to climate change, including The Great Barrier Reef and northern tropical rainforests, might be neglected in adaptation decisions, simply because they do not generate much of the tourism sector's overall revenue. 'The findings of this project are yet another indicator that governments, industry sectors and individual businesses need to carefully consider adaptation actions and decisions - and to consider both economic and environmental implications.' Source: University of Queensland

Two decades ago, an article was published in Global Environmental Change proposing the importance of place attachments, at local and global scales, for understanding human responses to climate change ( Feitelson, 1991 ). Despite concluding that ' studies of individual's attachment to place may provide important inputs for strategies to enhance the prospects for sharing the globe ' (p. 406, 1991), the article remainsoverlooked.This articletakes upandextendsFeitelson'sargumentformore systematicresearch on place attachments and climate change. First, the paper critically reviews interdisciplinary literature on place attachment and the related concept of place identity, drawing on scholarship in human geography, environmental and social psychology. The review identifies a lack of cross-disciplinary dialogue, as well as several limitations to the ways that scalar aspects have been researched. Second, climate change research, encompassing adaptation, mitigation and communication that has incorporated place related attachments and identities is critically reviewed; in particular, emerging research on the role of 'psychological distance' is critiqued. The article concludes with five recommendations for future research: to capture place attachments and identities at global as well as local scales; to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods that capture constructions of place as well as intensityof attachments and identifications; toinvestigate links between attachments, identities and collective actions, particular 'NIMBY' resistance to adaptation and mitigation strategies; to apply greater precision when investigating spatial frames of risk communication; and to investigate links between global attachments and identities,environmental worldviewsand climate changeengagement. Finally, the implications of such research for evaluating area-based climate interventions are discussed

Two decades ago, an article was published in Global Environmental Change proposing the importance of place attachments, at local and global scales, for understanding human responses to climate change ( Feitelson, 1991 ). Despite concluding that ' studies of individual's attachment to place may provide important inputs for strategies to enhance the prospects for sharing the globe ' (p. 406, 1991), the article remainsoverlooked.This articletakes upandextendsFeitelson'sargumentformore systematicresearch on place attachments and climate change. First, the paper critically reviews interdisciplinary literature on place attachment and the related concept of place identity, drawing on scholarship in human geography, environmental and social psychology. The review identifies a lack of cross-disciplinary dialogue, as well as several limitations to the ways that scalar aspects have been researched. Second, climate change research, encompassing adaptation, mitigation and communication that has incorporated place related attachments and identities is critically reviewed; in particular, emerging research on the role of 'psychological distance' is critiqued. The article concludes with five recommendations for future research: to capture place attachments and identities at global as well as local scales; to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods that capture constructions of place as well as intensityof attachments and identifications; toinvestigate links between attachments, identities and collective actions, particular 'NIMBY' resistance to adaptation and mitigation strategies; to apply greater precision when investigating spatial frames of risk communication; and to investigate links between global attachments and identities,environmental worldviewsand climate changeengagement. Finally, the implications of such research for evaluating area-based climate interventions are discussed

The emu-wren, with its delicate filagreed tail, would go. So too would the master of disguise, the ground parrot - victims of increased fire in Australia's south-east. And the palm cockatoo could disappear from its tropical toehold. They are among 396 native birds likely to suffer as a result of climate change, according to the first analysis of global warming's effects on Australian birds. Of 1232 Australian bird species and subspecies, one-quarter would do badly when exposed to the effects of climate change later this century, the report finds. Advertisement It calls for funds now, for what would eventually be a $940 million program to safeguard birds from Cape York to Tasmania. ''A billion dollars over 50 years for conserving Australia's birds in the face of climate change is paltry compared to the cost of biodiversity loss,'' the report states. The report used a median of 18 climate models to identify changes to the ''climate space'' of the birds - rainfall, temperature and food availability. Most at risk are birds of the northern tropics, which may lose their already tenuous rainforest habitat. Changes to inshore marine food supplies are particularly likely to strike species hard off the NSW coast and may drastically change the habitat of endemic Norfolk and Lord Howe island birds. The report, Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Australian Birds, found sea level rises will push other shorebirds, such as the pied oystercatcher and beach stone-curlew, out of nesting space when they are already under pressure from introduced predators and human use of the coasts. Report co-author Glenn Ehmke said the findings stood as a template for other groups of Australian fauna, such as mammals or reptiles. Lead author Stephen Garnett, of Charles Darwin University, laid out a roadmap for bird protection, including immediate action to identify refuges within the landscapes of highly exposed species. These might be mountains and rivers,

The emu-wren, with its delicate filagreed tail, would go. So too would the master of disguise, the ground parrot - victims of increased fire in Australia's south-east. And the palm cockatoo could disappear from its tropical toehold. They are among 396 native birds likely to suffer as a result of climate change, according to the first analysis of global warming's effects on Australian birds. Of 1232 Australian bird species and subspecies, one-quarter would do badly when exposed to the effects of climate change later this century, the report finds. Advertisement It calls for funds now, for what would eventually be a $940 million program to safeguard birds from Cape York to Tasmania. ''A billion dollars over 50 years for conserving Australia's birds in the face of climate change is paltry compared to the cost of biodiversity loss,'' the report states. The report used a median of 18 climate models to identify changes to the ''climate space'' of the birds - rainfall, temperature and food availability. Most at risk are birds of the northern tropics, which may lose their already tenuous rainforest habitat. Changes to inshore marine food supplies are particularly likely to strike species hard off the NSW coast and may drastically change the habitat of endemic Norfolk and Lord Howe island birds. The report, Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Australian Birds, found sea level rises will push other shorebirds, such as the pied oystercatcher and beach stone-curlew, out of nesting space when they are already under pressure from introduced predators and human use of the coasts. Report co-author Glenn Ehmke said the findings stood as a template for other groups of Australian fauna, such as mammals or reptiles. Lead author Stephen Garnett, of Charles Darwin University, laid out a roadmap for bird protection, including immediate action to identify refuges within the landscapes of highly exposed species. These might be mountains and rivers,

A new smartphone application aims to help coastal Australians assess if they are at risk from the affects of climate change. Print Email Permalink Share 11 The Coastal Ecosystems Response to Climate Change Synthesis Report (CERCCS) app will provide projections, impacts and adaptation options for coastal Australia. The Griffith University Australian Rivers Institute (ARI) says it will help people navigate through the heavy science and make decisions about climate change. ARI researchers Wade Hadwen and Samantha Capon developed the app. Dr Hadwen says the idea evolved from a 350 page report they wrote about the impact of climate change on the coastline. "We figured that very few people would actually bother reading that," he says. "We wanted to try and turn that into a more useful kind of tool, something that was accessible mobile and digital." The application contains three main components:

A new smartphone application aims to help coastal Australians assess if they are at risk from the affects of climate change. Print Email Permalink Share 11 The Coastal Ecosystems Response to Climate Change Synthesis Report (CERCCS) app will provide projections, impacts and adaptation options for coastal Australia. The Griffith University Australian Rivers Institute (ARI) says it will help people navigate through the heavy science and make decisions about climate change. ARI researchers Wade Hadwen and Samantha Capon developed the app. Dr Hadwen says the idea evolved from a 350 page report they wrote about the impact of climate change on the coastline. "We figured that very few people would actually bother reading that," he says. "We wanted to try and turn that into a more useful kind of tool, something that was accessible mobile and digital." The application contains three main components: