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

Jacobs, B; Boronyak, L; Mitchell, P; Vandenberg, M; Batten, B

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

Jacobs, B

Boronyak, L Mitchell, P Vandenberg, M Batten, B

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Citation:: Environmental Science and Policy, 2018, 89 pp. 206 - 215
Issue Date:: 2018-11-01

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dc.contributor.author	Jacobs, B https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3147-341X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Boronyak, L	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Mitchell, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Vandenberg, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Batten, B	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-08-18T19:03:35Z
dc.date.issued	2018-11-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Environmental Science and Policy, 2018, 89 pp. 206 - 215	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1462-9011	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128609
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 Elsevier Ltd 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.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Environmental Science and Policy	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.envsci.2018.08.001	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	Environmental Sciences	en_US
dc.title	Towards a climate change adaptation strategy for national parks: Adaptive management pathways under dynamic risk	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
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Abstract:

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd 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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