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Vegetation thickening in an ecological perspective: significance to national greenhouse gas inventories
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 4, Heft 2-3, S. 59-72
ISSN: 1462-9011
Informing regional level policy development and actions for increased adaptive capacity in rural livelihoods
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 23-37
ISSN: 1462-9011
Using adaptive governance to rethink the way science supports Australian drought policy
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 11, Heft 7, S. 588-601
ISSN: 1462-9011
Is climate change framed as 'business as usual' or as a challenging issue? The practitioners' dilemma
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 999-1019
ISSN: 1472-3425
There is growing recognition that routine climate change framing is insufficient for addressing the challenges presented by this change, and that different framings of climate change shape stakeholders' practices and guide policy options. This research investigated how stakeholders conceptualise climate change in terms of its seriousness and related uncertainty, and a resilience approach as a possible policy option to confront this uncertainty. An application of the conceptual framework provided by Handmer and Dovers' typology of emergencies is novel to the climate change field. Results show that there is a tendency to frame climate change as complex (with uncertainty representing part of that complexity) and to confront this complexity with less complex policies and solutions. No pattern of a conceptual link between uncertainty and resilience was observed. The results presented in this study offer empirical evidence to inform theory and provide helpful insights to inform policy design and practice.
Framing disaster resilience: The implications of the diverse conceptualisations of "bouncing back"
In: Disaster prevention and management: an international journal, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 252-270
ISSN: 1758-6100
Purpose– To confront the increasingly devastating impacts of disasters and the challenges that climate change is posing to disaster risk management (DRM) there is an imperative to further develop DRM. The resilience approach is emerging as one way to do this, and in the last decade has been strongly introduced into the policy arena, although it is not new for DRM practitioners and researchers. Nevertheless, resilience is a highly contested issue, and there is no agreed definition of it, which has resulted in confusion for stakeholders when applying it to practice. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how resilience is framed by researchers and DRM practitioners.Design/methodology/approach– The analytical framework used was Hajer's "social-interactive discourse theory", combined with analysis of government documents, in-depth interviews with practitioners and observation of field and practices within the context of the Natural Disaster Resilience Program in Queensland, Australia.Findings– One of the key findings is that the idea of "bouncing back" is central to the resilience discourse but different interpretations of this idea results in real-world implications. Three different ways (storylines) in which practitioners construct the meaning of disaster resilience emerge from this study. Importantly the divergences between these storylines reveal possibilities for reframing to occur and these could lead to different policy options and practices.Originality/value– The results presented in this paper offer empirical evidence on how resilience is understood on the ground, contributing to extending resilience theory and informing DRM and resilience practice.
"Climate change is the least of my worries": stress limitations on adaptive capacity
In: Rural society, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 24-41
'Climate change is the least of my worries': stress limitations on adaptive capacity
In: Rural society: the journal of research into rural social issues in Australia, Band 24, Heft 1
ISSN: 1037-1656
Maximising the benefits of participatory climate adaptation research by understanding and managing the associated challenges and risks
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 94, S. 20-31
ISSN: 1462-9011
Transitioning to a prosperous, resilient and carbon-free economy: a guide for decision makers
Policy frameworks and institutions for decarbonisation : the energy sector as 'litmus test' / Lynette Molyneaux and Keith Sue -- Technologies for decarbonising the electricity sector -- Wind energy / Nathan Steggel and David Osmond -- Solar photovoltaics / Andrew Blakers.