Adaptation Planning Process and Government Adaptation Architecture Support Regional Action on Climate Change in New South Wales, Australia

Jacobs, Brent; Lee, Christopher; Watson, Storm; Dunford, Suzanne; Coutts-Smith, Aaron

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“…Kwadijk et al 2010) to support robust decision making under uncertainty. Uptake of the concept has been rapid and pathways approaches have been applied in a variety of contexts and forms (Maru and Smith 2014), in particular for aspects of climate adaptation planning including health (Few 2007), energy (Ren 2011), infrastructure (Smith et al 2011), natural disasters (Rosenzweig and Solecki 2014), and regional strategy (Jacobs et al 2016). In our process, pathways were explicitly linked to management practices in each NPWS functional area.…”

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Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for national parks: Adaptive management pathways under dynamic risk

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Environmental Science & Policy

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Government seeks to manage public protected areas, such as national parks, to conserve high-quality wildlife habitats and provide essential ecosystems services at risk of permanent damage or extinction from climate change. The complexity of the organizational structure required to deliver this breadth of functions, coupled to uncertainty surrounding the onset and severity of climate impacts at local scale, impedes planning for climate change. This paper describes the development of an adaptation planning tool and its application in a pilot planning process for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the agency of the New South Wales (NSW) Government (Australia) responsible for management of national parks and public conservation reserves. The process involved close engagement in knowledge co-production in participatory workshops, and employed two complementary techniques, adaptive pathways and risk assessment. It successfully elicited tacit knowledge of agency staff about the range of interventions available, the need for management practices to evolve, and of discontinuities in management pathways in a dynamic risk environment. Findings suggest that management effort across the NSW reserve system will increase as climate risk rises. Consequently, government will need to respond to increased demand for resources, for better targeting of those resources, and for management innovation in how resources are deployed to support adaptation that is both anticipatory and transformative.

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“…Some of these functions may be only indirectly related to conservation of native species. In addition to coping with climate impacts across a range of NSW climatic zones and landscapes (Jacobs et al 2016, NSW Government 2015, NPWS has to plan adaptive actions for these multiple functions that will be variously affected by changing climate.…”

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Mitchell³

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“…In Australia, a multi-stakeholder process to articulate transformed intent of systems was facilitated over a 10-year period in New South Wales (NSW) (Jacobs et al 2016, Sebastian & Jacobs 2020. NSW is home to some of Australia's unique biodiversity, which continues to be threatened by increased extreme weather events such as fire and prolonged droughts.…”

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“…A systems thinking lens to biodiversity problems can support working across uncertain contexts with different time horizons. In the ERA example, multiple sub-systems were identified by policymakers as one-way incremental interventions that could help guide an overall transformation in the system (Jacobs et al 2016). Addressing combinations of systems characteristics helps to identify decisions on the immediate requirements of a policy action.…”

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Biodiversity revisited through systems thinking

2021

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Summary Systems thinking provides a comprehensive range of theories and methods that are useful for understanding and managing sustainability challenges. Biodiversity conservation is riddled with complex interactions between science, society and myriad interacting systems through temporal and spatial scales. This article presents a synthetic analysis of the history of systems thinking from a genealogical perspective, drawing from hard and soft systems thinking, and resilience and social-ecological systems. Using the anchor point of system leverage points and system characteristics (parameters, feedbacks, design and intent), we employ a diversity of examples to illustrate their relevance to multiple biodiversity related problems. We conclude by illustrating the opportunities for systems thinking to bridge epistemic divides with multiple biodiversity actors working towards conservation outcomes. Systems thinking can support more integrative biodiversity interventions, as they provide a pluralistic set of tools for bridging knowledges and disciplines, which can be useful to create new shared understandings of how to conserve biodiversity.

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“…Fig.1A conceptual model of transformation for extensive grazing of rangeland systems ( Adapted fromJacobs et al 2016) …”

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Pathways towards coexistence with large carnivores in production systems

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Coexistence between livestock grazing and carnivores in rangelands is a major challenge in terms of sustainable agriculture, animal welfare, species conservation and ecosystem function. Many effective non-lethal tools exist to protect livestock from predation, yet their adoption remains limited. Using a social-ecological transformations framework, we present two qualitative models that depict transformative change in rangelands grazing. Developed through participatory processes with stakeholders from South Africa and the United States of America, the models articulate drivers of change and the essential pathways to transition from routine lethal management of carnivores towards mutually beneficial coexistence. The pathways define broad actions that incorporate multiple values in grazing systems including changes to livestock management practices, financial support, industry capacity building, research, improved governance and marketing initiatives. A key finding is the new concept of 'Predator Smart Farming', a holistic and conscientious approach to agriculture, which increases the resilience of landscapes, animals (domesticated and wild) and rural livelihoods. Implementation of these multiple pathways would lead to a future system that ensures thriving agricultural communities, secure livelihoods, reduced violence toward animals, and landscapes that are productive and support species conservation and coexistence.

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Adaptation Planning Process and Government Adaptation Architecture Support Regional Action on Climate Change in New South Wales, Australia

Cited by 12 publications

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Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for national parks: Adaptive management pathways under dynamic risk

Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for national parks: Adaptive management pathways under dynamic risk

Biodiversity revisited through systems thinking

Pathways towards coexistence with large carnivores in production systems

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