Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resource Management Work: Opportunities for Resilient and Adaptive Practice

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Description: This project aims to partner with Catchment Management Authorities to develop a framework of climate change impacts on Natural Resource Management (NRM) work that will inform the identification of strengths and vulnerabilities of NRM work, and opportunities to shape resilient and adaptive NRM in response to local conditions and diverse interests and needs.
Dates

State ongoing
Start 2024-01-15
Form updated 2024-02-21

Report authors
Lisa de Kleyn (link)
0000-0002-6672-0188
L.deKleyn@latrobe.edu.au
Report completion
Jack Nunn
Report checking
Location
North-east Victoria, Australia


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Aims
To develop a framework of Natural Resource Management (NRM) work extending the definition and boundaries of work to include formal/informal roles, public/private spheres, and paid/volunteer arrangements.
To understand work practices and influences on organisations and NRM work from institutional arrangements, and disciplines, to local needs and expectations
To understand the impacts of climate change including exposures, vulnerabilities and sensitivities, and impacts from ongoing stressors to extreme events.
To inform the identification of strengths and vulnerabilities of NRM work, and a framework of opportunities to shape resilient and adaptative NRM.
Keywords
Natural resource management
Climate change
Climate change impacts
Work
Case study research
Community needs and expectations
First Nations people's self-determination
Category
research

Inputs

group of individuals
Stage: Project inception
Start: 2024-01-15
Research team (7)


Task: Support the development of the scope, aims, and objectives of the project | to refine considerations of the impact of the project, and public engagement | to provide expert advice on topics of NRM and climate change impacts and adaptation.
Method: Formal group
Recruitment: Directly contacted
Communication: Meetings every 6 weeks (online video calls, face to face meetings), emails, shared documents.
Barriers: Competing work commitments and significant workloads.
Compensation: paid
Declared interests: Practice: supporting resilient and adaptive NRM work. Policy: recommendations for reinforcing a supportive institutional framework in the context of climate change. Academic: contributions to considerations of climate change impacts of work, NRM work, and social justice in public engagement.
Impact: Practice, policy, and academic impact will be discussed and developed collaboratively and based on a project demonstrating research ethics and integrity.

These discussions are being held with team members as part of the project inception, and will be ongoing throughout the project.
organisation

La Trobe University (link)


Task: Funding body
Compensation: volunteer
group of individuals

Catchment Management Authority partners (2)


Task: Project partners co-developing the research. Shaping the aims, objectives, outcomes, impact, and public engagement. Participating in the research through case studies. Providing expert NRM input. Participating in reflexive evaluation.
Method: The methods will correspond with project stages and involve in-person and online meetings, and field work. With the whole team, meetings every 6 weeks (online video calls, face to face meetings), emails, shared documents.
Compensation: other
funding

(link)


25000 (AUD)

Grant (ABC Scheme)
time


100 hours

Catchment Management Authorities staff time (in-kind)

Outputs and impacts

learning item

A framework of climate change impacts on Natural Resource Management (NRM) and opportunities for resilient and adaptive NRM work.

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