Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resource Management Work: Opportunities for Resilient and Adaptive Practice
Everyone relies on the natural environment for their existence, and the natural environment relies on people and their work in natural resource management (NRM). NRM work refers to activities to protect, restore, and manage natural spaces. Such work is under increasing pressure from climate change, which stresses and disrupts NRM work influencing its effectiveness.
The aim of the project is to develop a framework of climate change impacts on NRM work including how work is exposed to climate change, and how these exposures interact with vulnerabilities and sensitivities of work. This understanding will inform the identification of strengths and vulnerabilities of NRM work, and opportunities to shape resilient and adaptive NRM.
Key concepts will be developed:
• Work as purposeful activity.
• NRM as a set of practices.
• Climate change impacts as concurrent, cascading, and compounding.
• Adaptation in relation to NRM work.
The project takes a collaborative and place-based approach and methods include interviews to understand NRM work, case studies to examine climate change impacts, and workshops to develop a framework of impacts and opportunities.State ongoing
Start 2024-01-15
Form updated 2024-02-24
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Inputs
Start: 2024-01-15
End 2024-12-31
Task: Support the development of the scope, aims, and objectives of the project. Refine considerations of the impact of the project, and public engagement. Provide expert advice on topics of NRM, climate change impacts, climate change adaptation, and social justice.
Method: Formal group
Recruitment: Directly contacted based on their potential contribution to the project.
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.
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
100 hours
Catchment Management Authorities staff time (in-kind)
Outputs and impacts
A framework of climate change impacts on Natural Resource Management (NRM) and opportunities for resilient and adaptive NRM work.