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