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Hazard Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: Community, local government & planning David King

Hazard Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: Community, local government & planning David King Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University. Are Hazard Resilience & Climate Change Adaptation independent strategies?

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Hazard Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: Community, local government & planning David King

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  1. Hazard Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: Community, local government & planning David King Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University

  2. Are Hazard Resilience & Climate Change Adaptation independent strategies? How do Community, local government & planners achieve resilience or adaptation ? Tropical Cyclone Yasi - 2011

  3. Emergency Management resiliency - A measure of how quickly a system recovers from failures. • vulnerability The degree of susceptibility and resilience of the community to environment to hazards • COAG strategy - to build disaster resilient communities • Department of Climate Change Adaptation – change, Modification to suit Conditions, Adjustment

  4. Vulnerability Hazard Risk Society, Community and individual Things we can’t control

  5. Resilience Things we can control - Types of resilience • Stability – stable community absorbs stress • Recovery resilient – bounce back – return to normalcy 3. Transformation – adapt to threat and to change Brisbane floods volunteer clean up

  6. National Disaster Resilience Strategy – COAG 2010 Characteristics of disaster resilient communities, individuals and organisations Function well under stress 2. Successful adaptation 3. Self reliance 4. Social capacity Volunteers building a temporary levee at Charleville

  7. Bronfenbrenner’s systems - a structure to understand and measure resilience • Microsystem – where the individual participates directly. • Mesosystem – microsystem member interactions not individual interactions • Exosystem – entities & organisations accessed by the individual or their family • Macrosystem – politics, views & customs - the cultural fabric of society. • Chronosystem – elements of time that relate to events in individual’s environment.

  8. Climate Change – increased frequency and intensity of climatic hazards Need for purposeful change Adaptation – adapt to risk – adapt to climate change Community education – knowledge, capacity, willingness Awareness translated into action strategies To prepare To strengthen To change and adapt Sustainability – resource use & social justice

  9. Organisational adaptation Local Government, Planners, developers – land use planning Inheriting past land use decisions Future growth Hazard planning Climate change adaptation

  10. Planning issues Legacy of past planning Coastal management Legislation Hazard zones Surge and flood Awareness Evacuation Rebuilding Coastal erosion Climate change Flood Inquiry focus

  11. Coastal Climate change Adaptation Protect Accommodate Retreat

  12. Adaptation PROTECT – structural (engineered) mitigation “I am not going to do anything, that’s what council is for” Sea wall – Machans Beach

  13. Expectations from former planning decisions

  14. Adaptation ACCOMODATE – adjust to minimise adversity “My next house will be on a hill overlooking the ocean, protected by a levee” Elevated housing option

  15. “The only real strategy is to build higher. I am trying to do that but the flood height is much higher than my lowest floor level and my application has not been allowed… I’m going to buy a boat” “I know that this house has been flooded four times, but it makes no difference to me. The river is what Brisbane is all about” “If you choose to live on the beach you accept some form of risk.. I just knew that if you choose to live within a beach community that you accept that you are likely to experience storm surge or cyclones”

  16. Adaptation RETREAT – abandon or relocate Destroyed house – Mission Beach Displaced Cassowary – Mission Beach

  17. Mortlock Islands Papua New Guinea – surge

  18. Migration as an adaptation strategy

  19. Decommissioning places – settlements and communities Places on the edge Outmigration & long term decline

  20. Challenges • Cost • Amenity • Insurance • Community education • Informed risk • Governance • Planning • The Legacy of former planning decisions • Population growth

  21. Resilience in the face of catastrophe Adaptation to an Uncertain Future Planning for a positive & optimistic future

  22. Thanks Acknowledgements – thanks for materials and research data Helen Boon, YettaGurtner, Alison Cottrell, Sharon Harwood, Ken Innes, Carl Ewin all of James Cook Uni Thanks to Geraldine Li for volunteering me for the Symposium For references contact david.king@jcu.edu.au

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